| 单词 | she-oak net |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshe-oak net she-oak net n. now rare a safety net for sailors boarding ship (see quot. 1898). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > safety net she-oak net1886 1886 D. M. Gane New S. Wales & Victoria 51 It is called by sailors ‘she-oak’, whence the term ‘she-oak nets’ is given to the life-preservers which the Victorian authorities have thought it wise to have slung under the gangways of every ship which is moored to the Melbourne wharves. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 415/1 She-oak nets, nets placed on each side of a gangway from a ship to the pier, to prevent sailors who have been indulging in she-oak (beer) falling into the water. 1925 R. Clements Gipsy of Horn 111 Old Australian traders used to spread a net under the gang~way, called therefrom the sheoke net, whose office it was to save mariners who ‘missed stays’ when coming aboard from falling into the dock. 1938 W. E. Dexter Rope-yarns 234 A dog..followed every drunken sailor—never by any chance a sober one—down the pier to his ship. If he managed to get on board safely the dog returned, but if he fell into the she-oak net it would howl until the man was rescued. < as lemmas |
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