| 单词 | boat-noust |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboat-noust A place where a boat can be hauled up and kept ashore; spec. a scooped-out trench at the edge of a beach surrounded by a shallow wall of stones. Also boat-noust.In quot. 1894 figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > grounding of vessel > [noun] > deliberately > place for noust1613 1613 in R. S. Barclay Court Bk. Orkney & Shetland (1962) 76 The saidis boitismen ressavit the boitis pairt and returnit the said boit to the nowst out of the quhilk schoe wes tane. 1687 T. Brown Diary 31 Oct. (1898) 48 William Ewinsone..found her lying..beneath the boat nowst in Wytfoord. 1690 T. Brown Diary 8 Dec. (1898) 63 Ther wes a great boat blowen owt of the Newst at the Air. 1869 J. T. Reid Art Rambles 41 Down to the boat-noust the trio hirpled. 1894 L. J. Nicolson Songs of Thule 79 My fecht is owre wi' wind an' wave Da Noost is noo da quiet grave. 1922 Glasgow Herald 22 July 86 In the afternoon at ebb tide they went down to take the boats out of the ‘nousts’. 1931 J. Nicolson Tales 55 When a boat was taken from its ‘noost’, and put into the water, the bow had to be turned ‘sun-gaets’. 1971 G. M. Brown Fishermen with Ploughs 69 He coughed his way to the noust And launched the Belle. 1993 Beaver Oct. 6/1 [Orkney] There was the noust for hauling up the boat; there was the sailhouse for drying their sails and housing the boat's gear. < as lemmas |
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