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单词 sea-boat
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sea-boatn.

Etymology: boat n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-boat.
1.
a. A boat for the sea.
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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.
attributive.1888 B. Edmondston & J. M. E. Saxby Home of Naturalist 31 He always had unbounded faith in the sea-boat qualities of a Shetland sixaerin.
b. A vessel considered in reference to her behaviour at sea.
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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.
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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.
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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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