单词 | seafaring |
释义 | seafaringn. a. Travelling by sea; the business or calling of a sailor. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > business or work of a sailor sea-work1528 seafaring1586 sailoring1864 sailorizing1876 1586 W. Warner Æneidos in Albions Eng. sig. Piv After weary Sea-faring. 1628 R. Le Grys tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. 108 My Countrey..is Rhegium; my profession, sea-faring. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 486. ⁋4 She is the Wife of a Sailor, and the kept Mistress of a Man of Quality; she dwells with the latter during the Sea-faring of the former. 1879 S. H. Butcher & A. Lang tr. Homer Odyssey 172 All day long her sails were stretched in her seafaring. b. attributive quasi-adj. Of or pertaining to travelling, living or working at sea. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [adjective] seafaring1601 nauticality1887 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 32 The skilfull prowesse and seafaring dexteritie of the English. 1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 22 An Insight into the Seafaring Life. 1877 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 3) I. ii. 56 The old sea-faring spirit seems to have died out. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018). seafaringadj. 1. a. Of persons: Travelling on the sea; following the sea as a calling, gaining a livelihood at sea. †Also absol. in plural sense. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [adjective] > seafaring seafaringc1200 sea-trod?1624 navigantc1680 seagoing1855 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > collectively seafaring1405 tarhood1749 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 161 Ðan þe safarinde men seð þe sasterre, hie wuten sone wuderward hie sullen weie holden. 1405 York Bidding Prayer in Lay-Folks Mass Bk. 65 Ȝe sal pray..for al land tilland and for al see farand..and for the fruyt that es on erthe. 1566 Act 8 Eliz. c. 13 §1 Beyng as beakons and markes of auncient tyme accustomed for Seafaryng men. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 80. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lxx Some Sea-faring People, inhabitants by the Thames-side in Wapping. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §117 To sailors and all seafaring persons. 1823 Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1819 12 App. 85 James Lincoln, a seafaring man at Sunderland, knew the prisoner Eden for twenty years. 1868 M. E. Braddon Run to Earth I. i. 2 The two men..belonged to the seafaring community. b. transferred. Applied to a bird. ΚΠ 1880 A. C. Swinburne Stud. in Song 86 Seafaring birds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > found on salt marshes or near sea seafaring1670 salt marsh1861 saline1866 1670 W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 69 A marine salt..works it self into the texture of those sea-faring plants. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1586adj.c1200 |
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