单词 | sculler |
释义 | scullern. 1. One who propels a boat by means of a scull or a pair of sculls; one skilled in the management of a sculling-boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > rower or oarsman > sculler sculler1530 scull1663 sculling boy1673 sculler-man1816 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 268/2 Scullar, batellier. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1355/2 He went ouer vnto Westminster bridge with a sculler, where he entered into a whirry that went to London. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 2 Nov. (1970) I. 281 I was told the Queene was a-coming, so I got a sculler for sixpence to carry me thither and back again. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxxv. 294 Ply for employment, like scullers at Hungerford-stairs. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Sculler, one that rows a cockboat. 1875 W. B. Woodgate Oars & Sculls (U.K. ed.) xv. 116 If anything, a sculler can reach his hands an inch or two farther forward than the oarsman. 2. A boat propelled by sculling; a sculling-boat; also, rarely †a pair of scullers. double-sculler, a sculling-boat to seat two scullers. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > sculling-boat sculler1567 scull1611 sculler-boat1663 funny1779 sculling-boat1856 sculling float1874 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Diiiv He went to the water syde and toke a Skoller [1573 skolloer] and was sette ouer the Water into Sainct Georges feldes. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 220/2 Linter, a wherry or sculler. a1640 W. Fenner Sacrifice of Faithful (1648) 211 A man cannot row upon the maine ocean in a paire of scullers. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 144 Her Soul already was consign'd to Fate, And shiv'ring in the leaky Sculler sate. View more context for this quotation 1760 Brit. Chron. 23 Jan. 79 On Sunday evening a skuller, with twelve people in it, struck on a hawser..and overset. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. xv. 238 Early as it was, there were plenty of scullers going here and there that morning, and plenty of barges. 1902 Working Men's College Jrnl. 7 366 Our skipper told us our boat drew too much water..and persuaded us to hire a double-sculler. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > oar > oar worked over stern scull1345 sculler1766 sculling oar1833 yulo1878 1766 Maldon (Essex) Borough Deeds (Bundle 79, No. 14) [Gideon Whetstone, mariner] saw him sink and try'd with his sculler to feel for him but could not reach him. CompoundsΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > sculling-boat sculler1567 scull1611 sculler-boat1663 funny1779 sculling-boat1856 sculling float1874 1663 S. Pepys Diary 1 May (1971) IV. 120 Going thither..I met a boy in a Sculler-boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > rower or oarsman > sculler sculler1530 scull1663 sculling boy1673 sculler-man1816 1816 Ann. Reg. 1815 Chron. 109/2 The other captain and the scullerman..were saved. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 584 With us it [sc. Nigrescent leprosy] is chiefly found among soldiers, sailors, sculler-men, stage-coachmen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † scullerv. Obsolete. rare. = scull v. 3. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > in specific type of craft or by specific propulsion rowa1470 boat1508 keel1599 barge1652 raft1667 drog1681 sculler1682 paddle1784 punt1818 scull1827 wherry1827 yawl1884 steam1891 submarine1918 gondolier1936 1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist Introd. sig. A2 What they paid for being Sculler'd back again, is not in the Book of Rates..for Charon's-boat is always empty of Passengers back again. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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