单词 | bawley |
释义 | bawleyn. local. A fishing-smack peculiar to the coasts of Essex and Kent. Also attributive, as bawley-boat. ΚΠ 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 9 Bawley, a small fishing smack used on the coasts of Kent and Essex, about the mouth of the Thames and Medway. 1888 Sat. Rev. 24 Mar. 349 A little creek where barges and bawley-boats can ride. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Bauley Boats, Harwich fishing-smacks. 1921 Spectator 7 May 589/1 Leigh-on-Sea is the producer of the bawley, a type of craft which has a loose-footed mainsail, but would otherwise be called a cutter. 1948 H. Benham Last Stronghold of Sail xxiii. 194 They are comely little bawleys, well kept, power-driven, and obviously prosperous. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1887 |
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