| 单词 | screw ship |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscrew ship b. With the sense ‘fitted with, or driven by means of, a screw-propeller’, as screw boat, screw ship, screw steamer, screw steamship, screw vessel, etc.; cf. senses 9a, 9b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by screw propeller screw boat1839 screw ship1839 screw steamer1839 screw steamship1839 screw vessel1839 propeller1843 screw1848 1839 Standard 1 June The Archimedes, new patent screw steam-vessel, in the East India Dock. 1839 Daily Herald & Gaz. (Cleveland, Ohio) 20 July Screw steamers—The Steamboat Archimedes..propelled by means of a single paddle wheel, of the screw or spiral form. 1848 B. Woodcroft Sketch Steam Navigation 91 The screw boat, the Francis B. Ogden. 1850 E. P. Halsted Screw-fleet of Navy ii. 12 Screw-frigates. 1852 J. Bourne Treat. Screw Propeller x. 216 H.M.S. ‘Amphion’, the first screw vessel constructed in this country. 1861 A. Murray Theory & Pract. Ship-building 132/2 Results of Trials made in her Majesty's Screw-ships. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 825/2 Screw steamship propulsion. 1918 F. F. Pease Mod. Shipbuilding Terms 77/1 Screw post, propeller post, the inner sternpost of a screw steamer. 1990 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 29 Oct. 2 ‘It has a five and one-half foot draft,’ Wooten said. ‘A screw vessel this size would draw nine feet.’ 2001 Ships Monthly Mar. 18/1 By the middle of the 1860s the fleet had grown to 25 vessels, comprising 11 screw steamers, nine iron sailing vessels and five wooden sailing ships. < as lemmas |
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