| 单词 | sixty-pounder |
| 释义 | > as lemmassixty-pounder a. With nouns, forming attributive compounds, as sixty-gun, or with nouns in -er, sixty-pounder; sixty-miler (Australian), a small cargo vessel which transports coal along the coast from Newcastle to Sydney; also sixty-sized adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > coaster > types of sixty-miler1747 Straitsman1799 trabacolo1800 chasse-marée1802 sumack1805 balandra1839 1747 J. Lind Lett. Navy (1757) i. 35 (note) None who had not commanded..60 gun ships, would have a right [etc.]. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 258 The French had erected a battery of twenty-four sixty pounders. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxx. 268 Why could not the fellow..have had his sixty-guinea hoard taken from him..? 1850 G. Glenny Hand-bk. Flower Garden 155 When they have taken good root, pot them into sixty-sized pots. 1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) i. 123 A new 60-stamp mill has been under course of construction. 1933 I. Hamilton Nights Ashore 29 The Five Stars was a few tons larger than the average ancient sixty miler. 1933 I. Hamilton Nights Ashore 210 During the slack ‘sixty-miler’ season. 1940 E. Blunden Poems 1930–40 202 And as the stream's last murmer stilled, Our sixty-pounders started talking. 1948 Sydney Morning Herald 28 Jan. 1/7 Sydney's gas supply now depends on the ‘60-milers’. < as lemmas |
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