| 单词 | boat-head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboat-head boat-head n. (also boat's head) now rare the front part of a boat; the bow. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] foreshipc1000 stam1336 bilynge?a1400 forestam?a1400 boat-head1485 head1485 prore1489 forecastle1490 steven1512 forepart1526 nose1538 prow1555 stem1555 forebow1569 beak-head1579 galion1604 bow1626 fore-beaka1656 forebudding1811 prora1847 snout1853 forward1892 sharp end1948 1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 50 Sheves of Iren in the bote Hede. 1599 in H. Stevens Dawn Brit. Trade E. Indies (1885) 18 2 in her fore sheetes, 2 in hir boates head. 1625 H. Pricket in S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. 607 Then was Andrew Moter driuen to stand in the Boat head, and waft to the ship, which (at the first) saw vs not. 1776 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 165/2 Charon at the boat head receives them. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott iv, in Poems (new ed.) 18 As the boathead wound along The willowy hills and fields among. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous i. 10 With a swift jerk he sculled the flickering boat-head on to a foamless sea. < as lemmas |
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