单词 | boat-wise |
释义 | boat-wiseadv. 1. In the manner or shape of a boat; like a boat. Also: by boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [adverb] > in the manner or shape of a ship or boat boat-wise1697 boat-fashion1802 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 29 Canoa's..are nothing but the Tree itself made hollow Boat-wise. 1767 W. L. Lewis tr. Statius Thebaid I. vi. 256 Vessels Boat-wise form'd. 1854 Harper's Mag. Feb. 378/1 My uncle's frequent communication with Anglesea was effected boatwise, from a broad inlet of the sea. 1874 C. Reade Rose & Rue I. x. 173 Confronting them rode boat-wise the new moon. 1922 A. Teixeira de Mattos tr. J. H. Fabre More Beetles xiv. 307 Nothing is left of the deceased but the wing-cases, packed boat-wise, and the fore-part of the body, which is not disjointed. 1998 S. Billing Red Sea Peril (2002) xxix. 231 Transiting the Suez Canal boat-wise is a doddle. 2000 E. Mosbacher & D. Silone tr. I. Silone Abruzzo Trilogy iii. viii. 593 Mastro Eutimio was sitting on a chair..with his little hat perched boatwise across his head. 2. With regard to boats. ΚΠ 1910 St. Nicholas Apr. 484/2 I would trust you with the boat before any other person, for your skill and judgment, boatwise, are beyond your years. 1971 R. Ovington Introd. Bait Fishing xii. 168 Boat-wise, it varies from using a twin-engined outboard skiff for quick runs out and back to luxurious 26-foot to over 40-foot cruisers. 1997 Times (Nexis) 6 Dec. At the foot of the social scale, boatwise, is the panga. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1697 |
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