seventy-fourn.

Brit.

/ˌsɛvntɪˈfɔː/, U.S.

/ˌsɛvən(t)iˈfɔr/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: seventy adj., four adj.

Etymology: < seventy adj. + four adj.The fish name (sense 2) may represent an extended use of sense 1, although if so the motivation for this is uncertain; suggestions include a supposed resemblance between the fish's linear markings and rows of gun-ports on this type of ship.

1. A warship carrying 74 guns. Now historical.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > vessel carrying certain number of guns > twenty or more

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1777 Gen. Evening Post 29 Nov. There were..twenty-two seventy-fours, and seven three deckers.

1797 Ld. Nelson in A. Duncan Life (1806) 44 Two first-rates and a seventy-four are with him.

1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 8 Sept. 519/1 The dark hold of an old Seventy-four.

1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 238 For fifteen years the seventy-four was the ideal fighting ship for the line of battle.

2013 S. L. Butler Defending Old Dominion xi. 184 The only seventy-four cruising the Lynnhaven Bay at the time, Victorious, dispatched several barges to capture the prize.

2. Either of two very large sea breams of South African coastal waters, formerly prized as game fish: the red steenbras, Petrus rupestris, and (now usually spec.) Polysteganus undulosus, a mainly pink fish marked with blue lines.

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1852 Cape of Good Hope Almanac & Ann. Reg. 1853 348 Dentex rupestris... (Bastard Silverfish; Seventy-four).

1894 J. R. Whitton & W. Milne Longmans' Geogr. Reader S. Afr. lix. 226 Seventy-four is considered one of the very finest of colonial fishes.

2006 S. Pillay Shadow People vi. 61 Men in long white coats lopped off the heads of barracuda, shad and seventy-four; they snipped the fins, slit the stomachs.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	seventy-four
释义	seventy-fourn. Brit. /ˌsɛvntɪˈfɔː/, U.S. /ˌsɛvən(t)iˈfɔr/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: seventy adj., four adj. Etymology: < seventy adj. + four adj.The fish name (sense 2) may represent an extended use of sense 1, although if so the motivation for this is uncertain; suggestions include a supposed resemblance between the fish's linear markings and rows of gun-ports on this type of ship. 1. A warship carrying 74 guns. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > vessel carrying certain number of guns > twenty or more ship of post1731 post ship1747 seventy-four1777 fifty1778 forty-four1821 1777 Gen. Evening Post 29 Nov. There were..twenty-two seventy-fours, and seven three deckers. 1797 Ld. Nelson in A. Duncan Life (1806) 44 Two first-rates and a seventy-four are with him. 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 8 Sept. 519/1 The dark hold of an old Seventy-four. 1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 238 For fifteen years the seventy-four was the ideal fighting ship for the line of battle. 2013 S. L. Butler Defending Old Dominion xi. 184 The only seventy-four cruising the Lynnhaven Bay at the time, Victorious, dispatched several barges to capture the prize. 2. Either of two very large sea breams of South African coastal waters, formerly prized as game fish: the red steenbras, Petrus rupestris, and (now usually spec.) Polysteganus undulosus, a mainly pink fish marked with blue lines. ΚΠ 1852 Cape of Good Hope Almanac & Ann. Reg. 1853 348 Dentex rupestris... (Bastard Silverfish; Seventy-four). 1894 J. R. Whitton & W. Milne Longmans' Geogr. Reader S. Afr. lix. 226 Seventy-four is considered one of the very finest of colonial fishes. 2006 S. Pillay Shadow People vi. 61 Men in long white coats lopped off the heads of barracuda, shad and seventy-four; they snipped the fins, slit the stomachs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1777
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