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单词 rear man
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rear man
rear man n. Nautical Obsolete (in a gun crew) the person who is placed farthest from a ship's side.
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1846 E. Plunkett Past & Future Brit. Navy ix. 143 No. 1., who has been warned to ‘spring up to the safety position on the left’, does it so effectually, as to make ‘a cannon’ off the left rear-man, and pocket himself down the hatchway.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 227 The two men whose numbers place them farthest from the ship's side [in working a gun] are to be termed right, and left rear-men.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 12 Who places the inclined planes? The rear-man.
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