单词 | ship-boy |
释义 | ship-boyn. A boy who serves on board ship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > ship's boy ship-boy1552 grummet1576 pug1589 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Shyp boye, Misonauta. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. iii. 4 This Ship-boyes semblance hath disguis'd me quite. View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 5 The aduentrous ship-boyes were in perill of those Sharkes. 1661 J. Godolhpin Συνεγορος Θαλασσιος App. 168 The Master ought to set him on shore,..and..to spare him one of the Ship-boyes to look to him. 1810 S. Rogers Voy. Columbus i. 2 The very ship-boy, on the dizzy mast, Half-breath'd his orisons! 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Ship-boy, boys apprenticed to learn their sea-duties, but generally appointed as servants. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. ix. 76 ‘Here, you ship's boy,’ he cried, ‘out o' that!’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1552 |
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