单词 | sea-boat |
释义 | sea-boatn. 1. a. A boat for the sea. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > ocean-going vessel sea-boatOE oceaner1840 boat1841 ocean-goer1884 deep-waterman1906 salty1959 OE Beowulf 633 Þa ic on holm gestah, sæbat gesæt mid minra secga gedriht. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Sea-Boat, a vessel that bears the sea firmly, without labouring heavily. 1856 J. Ruskin Harbours of Eng. 1 One object there is still, which I never pass without the renewed wonder of childhood; and that is the bow of a Boat... The blunt head of a common bluff undecked sea-boat. 1892 R. C. Leslie Sea-boat 4 The building of a bluff-bowed, flat-floored sea-boat, is a much greater test of a boat-builder's skill than the construction of any form of longer and sharper craft. 1972 C. Mudie Motor Boats 76 Over twelve feet in length..the types of boat begin to diverge from the general purpose dinghy..into seaboats for family use and for fishing. b. A vessel considered in reference to her behaviour at sea. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [noun] > with reference to behaviour at sea sea-boat1725 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 13 Our Brigantine..an excellent Sea-boat. 1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 241 The Roman Shipwrecks were occasion'd undoubtedly by their Ships being bad Sea-boats, and [etc.]. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §92 Any good sea-boat, may make her course good to Fowey. c. spec. A small, manœuvrable craft sent out from a larger vessel, as in cases of emergency at sea. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > small vessel > small boat nacelle1483 cockle boata1625 peasecod-boat1657 boatie1788 monkey boat1813 dinky1849 cockle1857 sea-boat1909 1909 Man. Seamanship (Admiralty) II. viii. 142 Never call away a ‘lifeboat’ at sea except for the purpose of saving life; on all other occasions call away the ‘sea boat’. 1914 ‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions xx. 179 The seaboat's crew had gone through an undress rehearsal of ‘Man overboard!’ 1963 H. C. de Mierre Long Voy. ix. 148 Port and starboard sea-boats had been put in the water. 2. A name for a Chiton or coat-of-mail shell. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > amphineura or chitons chiton1815 sea-caterpillara1843 sea-woodlouse1863 mail-shell1867 sea-boat1884 sea-bug1884 Amphineura1889 1884 E. Ingersoll in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 701 These shells have been called by different names,..such as ‘Wood~louse’, ‘Sea-boat’,..‘Sea-bug’, and ‘Sea-caterpillar’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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