| 单词 | quarter-watch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter-watch quarter-watch n. Nautical a ship's watch composed of a quarter of the crew. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > crew > watch quarter-watch1625 watch1626 1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (MS BL Add. 21571) f. 148v Quarter-watche, that ys when one Quarter of the Companye ded watch at a tyme. 1702–11 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) 11 Quarter-Watch is when a Quarter of the Ship's Company watches, which is us'd in Harbour, when there is no Danger. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms at Bordée Faire la petite Bordee, to set the quarter-watch. 1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 229 On the whaling ground..they stand ‘quarter-watches’. 1998 Amer. Spectator (Nexis) July Her skipper..could not drag the harbor,..but he did mount a nighttime quarter watch instead of the usual anchor watch. < as lemmas |
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