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单词 boat race
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boat racen.

Brit. /ˈbəʊt reɪs/, U.S. /ˈboʊt ˌreɪs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: boat n.1, race n.1
Etymology: < boat n.1 + race n.1 Compare earlier ship race n. at ship n.1 Compounds 1a(a).
1.
a. A race between rowing crews.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun]
sailing match1663
boat race1751
boat racing1788
1751 G. Cleghorn Observ. Epidemical Dis. Minorca 58 Every year about Midsummer they have likewise a Diversion in Mahon Harbour which may be properly called a Boat-Race.
1774 G. Washington Diary 7 May (1978) III. 248 Went..to a Boat Race & Barbicue.
1791 H. Walpole Let. 23 Aug. (1944) XI. 341 On Monday was the boat-race. I was in the great room..to see the boats start.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. xiii. 244 To get a man into training for a boat-race now-a-days.
1882 W. Black Shandon Bells xxiii At the Bell Inn at Henley, when all the confusion of the boat-races was about.
1911 Harvard Alumni Bull. 28 June 607 (caption) The University boat race at New London—Harvard crossing the finish line.
1990 Meridian Summer 70 Henley Royal Regatta at Henley-on-Thames. Blazers, boaters, champers and the occasional boat race.
b. spec. With the. Frequently with capital initials. A rowing race between crews of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, now held annually on the River Thames over a course from Putney to Mortlake.First rowed at Henley in 1829, the race has been held annually since 1845, in the early years sometimes over the reverse of the current course.
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1829 F. Leighton Let. 3 June in C. Darwin Corr. (1985) I. 86 I shall be most happy to be your chaperon to Henly [sic] for the boat race.
1834 Bell's Life in London 25 May 2/5 We are sorry to state that the proposed boat race between the two Universities will not take place.
1929 S. Leslie in C. Asquith Shudders 200 We parted promising to meet regularly in life: at the Boat Race, at the annual tea-crawl given to the senile of the College on Founders' Day.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xvi. 349 Until the last war the event which most excited children's loyalties was the Boat Race.
2010 Guardian (Nexis) 5 Apr. (Sport section) 10 The press and public dip into the Boat Race for one day a year. For the crews and their coaches, it is a full-time obsession.
2. A race between boats other than rowing boats.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > other types of race
boat race1777
ice-boating1851
ice yachting1866
1777 London Evening Post 7–10 June The annual boat-race established by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.
1825 Belfast Mag. & Literary Jrnl. 1 397 The pleasure boats of the neighbouring gentlemen, which were practising for an approaching boat race, with all their white sails set, lay motionless on the water.
1896 R. Temple Story of my Life I. xii. 259 The inhabitants of Dacca..were pleased to hold an Oriental boat-race in my honour. Having regard to the exquisite structure of the boats and the elegance of the sails, that was the most picturesque regatta I ever saw.
1939 Pop. Sci. Aug. 102/2 This is a boat race. Oh, and Mr. Wilson, I'll need Harry to help me get the motor adjusted on the boat.
2006 B. Foley Inboard Racing xi. 156 Sometimes two or even three hydros ‘hook up’ in a side by side boat race.
3. [Rhyming slang.] Usually with possessive adjective. The face. Cf. boat n.1 4b.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > [noun]
leera700
nebeOE
onseneeOE
wlitec950
anlethOE
nebshaftc1225
snouta1300
facec1300
visage1303
semblantc1315
vicea1325
cheera1350
countenance1393
front1398
fashiona1400
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physiognomyc1425
groina1500
faxa1522
favour1525
facies1565
visor1575
complexiona1616
frontispiecea1625
mun1667
phiz1687
mug1708
mazard1725
physiog1791
dial plate1811
fizzog1811
jiba1825
dial1837
figurehead1840
Chevy Chase1859
mooey1859
snoot1861
chivvy1889
clock1899
map1899
mush1902
pan1920
kisser1938
boat1958
boat race1958
punim1965
1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights 36 A big bandage round his thumb and a big smile on his boat race.
1986 B. Forbes Endless Game ii. xxii. 230 We don't want to look at your mournful boat-race every night!
2006 Nuts 11 Aug. 89/3 Fancy moisturiser packed with all sorts of vitamins to ‘wake up’ your skin. It leaves your boat race energised and looking good.

Compounds

attributive in sense 1b, (in early use) esp. in boat race night (see quots.).
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1863 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 22 Feb. 11/5 The Oxford and Cambridge boat-race day has not yet been fixed.
1871 Illustr. Police News 8 Apr. 4/3 (headline) Boat-race night.—A riot in the Haymarket.
1889 E. Dowson Let. 24 Mar. (1967) 54 I am sick of 'varsity men & shall leave on Friday for Brighton & so escape whiskey & whores on boat race night.
1897 R. Peel Bit of Fool iv. 48 The disorder of that night in the neighbourhood of the Criterion has much moderated of late years; but at the time of which I write the Boat-race was in the height of popularity, and Boat-race night was kept as a revel.
1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves ii. 46 Have you forgotten that I did thirty days..for punching a policeman..on Boat-Race night?
1960 Times 28 Jan. 8/3 (caption) Members of the Cambridge Boat Race practice crew limber up.
2010 Bath Chron. (Nexis) 18 Nov. 110 Conditions on the famous 4.5-mile Boat Race course on the tidal Thames were calm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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