单词 | boat-stretcher |
释义 | > as lemmasboat-stretcher boat-stretcher n. a board in a boat against which a rower presses the feet for support; = stretcher n. 7. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > foot-rest for rower stretcher1609 boat-stretcher1850 1850 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 451/2 The whole of us, save the Judge and the Planter, made a clean charge down upon them—the schooner's men joining us with the oars and boat-stretchers. 1888 W. B. Churchward ‘Blackbirding’ in S. Pacific xii. 220 If they tried to shirk rowing, the chap in the bows or stern would fetch them a crack with the boat-stretcher. 1911 J. London South Sea Tales 208 He used a boat-stretcher and a revolver. 1936 R. C. Cabot Meaning of Right & Wrong (rev. ed.) i. 22 Perhaps he did not know what he was doing. He had been hit with a boat stretcher by the chief engineer. 1982 E. Richards Last Scottish Food Riots 8 Fifty constables went to Burghead but were met by a mob of four or five hundred fishermen armed with bludgeons and boat-stratchers. < as lemmas |
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