| 单词 | rum row |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRum Row Rum Row n. U.S. (now historical) (a) a part of a town or city frequented by alcoholics, vagrants, etc., or where an abundance of public houses, taverns, etc., are located; (b) (during the Prohibition era) a row of ships loaded with illicit liquor, anchored outside of the jurisdiction of the United States; an area in which such a row of ships is found. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > smuggling > rum > line of at anchor Rum Row1850 1850 N.Y. Daily Tribune 16 Oct. 5 A party of officers was dispatched to a place near Broad and Federal sts. known as ‘Rum-row’. 1923 Times Mar. 11/7 A Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) schooner reports that while anchored in ‘Rum Row’, off the New Jersey coast, it was boarded by liquor pirates. 1923 Lit. Digest 26 May 52/2 Small consignments are carried from there down to the ‘Rum Row’ of ships anchored beyond the three-mile limit of the Long Island and New Jersey shores. 1949 E. L. Irey Tax Dodgers i. 26 There were three Rum Rows, one on each coast and a smaller one working in the Gulf of Mexico. 1994 Cape Cod Life Aug.–Sept. 70/1 Just outside the Coast Guard's jurisdiction, a flotilla of liquor-filled vessels formed the self-designated ‘Rum Row’. 2006 C. O. Hirst Torchlight i. 13 Lately many people had taken to calling a section of Court Street Rum Row because of the saloons that had sprung up near Park Square. < as lemmas |
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