单词 | quant-pole |
释义 | > as lemmasquant-pole quant-pole n. = sense 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > pole spritOE shaltree1307 quant1440 poy1486 boat pole1698 setting-pole1763 stower1777 punting polea1798 setter1816 punt pole1831 kent1844 punt stick1846 pricking-pole1892 quant-pole1898 1898 H. M. Smyth Five Years Siam I. viii. 161 The antics of a boat working her way up-stream..caught and held by the quant poles for a moment at the upper edge of rocks. 1901 Academy 26 Oct. 389/1 There..lay a large family-boat immovable... A quant-pole stood rigidly upright beside it. 1974 Oxf. Junior Encycl. (rev. ed.) IX. 389/1 On the Norfolk Broads,..boatmen often propel their ‘wherries’ (sailing barges) for short distances by ‘quanting’ with very long, heavy poles called ‘quant-poles’. < as lemmas |
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