单词 | quarter port |
释义 | > as lemmasquarter port quarter port n. ΚΠ 1711 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) at Transome To come in with a Ship's Transome, is just betwixt her Gun-Room-Port and her Quarter-Port. 1786 Edinb. Advertiser 26 May 1/3 I left Mr. Benger in the stern-gallery, and got out of the quarter-ports into the mizen chain, and jumped overboard. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Quarter-ports, those made in the after side-timbers and especially in round-stern vessels. 1959 F. Friedel Golden Age Amer. Hist. 347 The frigates were kept in this position by the fluke of the Shannon's anchor catching in the Chesapeake's quarter port. < as lemmas |
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