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单词 quarterdeck gun
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quarterdeck gun
attributive. Of, relating to, or situated on the quarterdeck, as quarterdeck gun, quarterdeck rail, etc.; (of behaviour, demeanour, etc.) characteristic of or befitting an officer on the quarterdeck, as quarterdeck dignity, quarterdeck service, etc.
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1701 J. Savage Knolles's Turkish Hist. II. 77 Plying their Quarter-Deck Guns with Small Shot, and Defending themselves with Half-Pikes, they often clear'd the Decks.
1797 Ld. Nelson in A. Duncan Life (1806) 42 A Spanish officer looked over the quarter-deck rail.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales (ed. 2) II. xiii. 299 When surgeon of a brig of war, my quarter-deck promenade was confined to eight paces.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast ix. 19 The quarter-deck dignity and eloquence of the captain.
1893 W. C. Russell Emigrant Ship I. iv. 53 I saluted him with a quarter-deck flourish.
1927 H. D. Capper Aft —— from Hawsehole p. xii There are close upon three thousand naval officers of ‘hawsehole origin’..who are, or have been, performing fine quarter-deck service for their country.
1950 ‘C. S. Forester’ Mr. Midshipman Hornblower ii. 42 Hornblower was at his station at the starboard quarter-deck carronades.
1989 J. M. Dillard Lost Years iv. 104 Do you know what a quarterdeck breed, is, Admiral?
2006 Portland (Maine) Press Herald (Nexis) 10 Nov. b2 The Portland Pirates are offering main and quarter deck tickets..to military families and their friends.
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