| 单词 | pulling launch |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspulling launch b. In the sense ‘moved by oars, rowing-’, as pulling boat, pulling launch, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat rowboat1502 rowing boat1515 oars1598 pulling boat1832 pull-away1939 oary boat1985 1832 M. Scott Tom Cringle in Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 761/2 He was a great boat-racer, constantly building and altering gigs, and pulling-boats. 1871 Times 10 Aug. 8/1 No boat could stem it [sc. the current], and the whole of the pulling launches had to be towed up. 1894 Times 7 July 7/5 The gun was afterwards put on board an ordinary pulling pinnace. 1975 Country Life 2 Jan. 23/2 The RNLI..displays the former Whitby No. 2 lifeboat..the last pulling boat to have been in the service of the Institution. 2004 E. Michael Beyond Pendowry Water xvii. 125 Lying at anchor was a dilapidated fishing boat,..and, rubbing against her old tyre fenders, was a pulling dinghy in no better condition. < as lemmas |
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