单词 | plantation-built |
释义 | > as lemmasplantation-built plantation-built adj. ΚΠ 1695–6 Statutes of Realm (1820) VII. 107 Any Fisher-Boates..or other Vessells (though English of Plantation Built) whose Navigation is confined to the Rivers or Coasts of the same Plantation or Place, [etc.]. c1744 in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea (1753) II. xii. 67 Any British or plantation built ships. 1845 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 114 As by the rules ‘at Lloyd's,’ and elsewhere among underwriters in England, vessels ‘plantation-built’ are seldom rated as ‘A. 1’. 1989 New Eng. Q. 62 553 The Navigation Act required that any vessel trading in the British West Indies must be a British bottom, that is, a British-built vessel, a prize, or a plantation-built vessel. < as lemmas |
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