| 单词 | sick-bay |
| 释义 | > as lemmassick-bay 3. Applications of the idea of ‘recess’: e.g. horse-bay, the stall for a horse; sick-bay, part of the fore-part of a ship's main-deck, used as a hospital (see also sick adj. and n. Compounds 1a); bomb bay: see bomb bay n. at bomb n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > a receding part bay1582 recess1651 niche1662 shoulder1669 retirement1726 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stall horse-bay1582 trevis1756 box1798 trevis board1833 headpost1844 horse-box1846 stallage1861 feeding-box1883 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > space between decks > at bow bay1867 1582 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 47 Iij swalles for a horse baye 8d. 1851 Art Jrnl. Hist. Great Exhib. 20/1 The crowding of the bays of the galleries. 1863 Cornhill Mag. Feb. 181 Their ‘sick-bay’ probably does not differ from any hospital ward. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Bay, the fore part of a ship between decks before the bitts. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Mar. 6/1 The ‘bays’ between the gun stations..afford shelter to the gunners. sick-bay sick-bay n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital ship > part of ship used as hospital sick-bay1813 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 465 The temporary sick~bay, in which they had been heretofore, being pulled down. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Sick-bay, a place set apart in a ship for invalids or wounded men. 1919 W. Lang Sea-lawyer's Log i. 6 Then our guide, a Leading Seaman,..conducted us to the doctor's quarters—or ‘sick bay’, as he expressed it. 1971 P. D. James Shroud for Nightingale iii. 60 She's in the sick bay... It's part of the private wing. < as lemmas |
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