| 单词 | boat-master |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboat-master boat-master n. a person who captains or is in charge of a boat; cf. master n.1 7. [Earliest attested as a surname. Compare shipmaster n.] ΚΠ 1248 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 86 (MED) Rog. le Botmeyster. 1652 R. Codrington tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Life & Death Alexander vii. 197 For the boat-masters [L. gubernatores] were not able to keep their course against the force of the stream. 1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 188 Every boat-master, splitter, and master voyage, who are the chief people among the [Newfoundland] fishermen and shoremen, being the catchers and curers of fish. 1866 G. E. J. Powell & E. Magnússon tr. J. Arnason Icelandic Legends 2nd Ser. 9 Next morning the weather was very suspicious, and none deemed fit to row out, except one boat-master and his crew. 1997 Oxoniensia 61 328 People..may have preferred to ship something upstream sooner to Henley rather than wait for a boat-master to have assembled a load for Oxford. < as lemmas |
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