单词 | sallee-man |
释义 | Sallee-mann. 1. A Moorish pirate-ship. Obsolete exc. Historical. So also Sallee rover n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > privateer or pirate ship > [noun] > pirate ship pirate1569 pirate ship1570 Sallee-man1637 Sallee rover1734 sea-serpent1831 filibuster1860 1637 J. Dunton Jrnl. Sally Fleet Ep. Ded. Being sent out Master and Pilote in a Sallyman of warre, with twenty-one Moores and five Flemish rennagadoes, unto the coast of England to take Christians. 1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 29 One of the Seamen having descry'd to the S.W. a ship which he took for a Sally-Man. 1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 30 This Supposed Sally-Rover prov'd nothing else but a Virginia Merchant-Man. 1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 2 On the 9th we had a sight of another Vessel,..she seem'd to be a Sally~man, and might carry about 30 pieces of cannon. 1734 Extracts Rec. Convent. Burghs Scotl. (1885) V. 593 A ship~master in Boness and his crew who were taken by a Salee Rover and are now at Algeirs. 1754 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 24 Aug. A Sallee man, which cruizes from Cape Bon to the Isle of Galeta. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal II. xii. 235 A Sallee rover gave chace to our ship. 2. A marine hydrozoan, Velella vulgaris.It floats on the sea with its vertical crest acting as a sail. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Siphonophora > genus Velella > member of Sallee-man1756 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 387 The Sally Man. This insect..is more firm and opake than either of the foregoing. 1860 G. Bennett Gatherings of Naturalist in Austral. iii. 54 Vellela limbosa, or ‘Sallyman’, is abundant. 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 739 A remarkable creature called by the popular name of Sallee Man, sometimes corrupted in nautical fashion into Sallyman. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1637 |
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