| 单词 | salt horse |
| 释义 | > as lemmassalt horse salt horse n. salted beef; also transferred, a naval officer with general duties. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [noun] > salted meat Martinmas meatc1450 Martinmas beefc1475 powder beef1479 Martinmas flesh1656 Irish horse1748 bully1753 junk1762 salt junk1792 salt horse1836 red horse1864 hunter's beef1879 bullamacow1887 Jack1890 macon1939 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > officer with specific duty > [noun] > officer with general duties salt horse1836 steerage officer1891 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. i. 11 Why you stay in Midshipman berth—eat hard biscuit, salt pig, salt horse? 1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. I. 189 (note) A return..to the ‘salt horse’, which no one is more ready to abuse than an old sailor. 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 42/1 The..hard fare of ‘weevily’ biscuit and ‘salt-horse’. 1914 F. T. Jane Your Navy as Fighting Machine viii. 69 A non-specialist officer (known colloquially as ‘salt horse’) serves as a watch-keeper. 1917 ‘Taffrail’ Sub v. 115 Next came Lieutenant Hinckson, the senior ‘salt horse’, two and a half striped Lieutenant. 1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 149 Salt horse, A, an officer who has not specialised in gunnery, torpedo, etc. and does not intend to. 1957 D. Macintyre Jutland ii. 33 Here was a simple ‘salt-horse’, indeed, and such were not often selected, in time of peace, for the higher ranks of the Service. 1960 J. Bisset Commodore 17 Officers in big ships called destroyer-officers ‘salt horses’—meaning nonspecialists, a term of disdain. < as lemmas |
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