| 单词 | boatswain's chair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboatswain's chair boatswain's chair n. a seat suspended from ropes, used for work on the body or masts of a ship or (later) in other high places, as the face of a tall building; cf. bosun's chair n. at bosun n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > work-benches, seats, etc. > [noun] > seat > for use while working aloft boatswain's chair1856 seat-board1873 cradle1874 bosun's chair1878 1856 Hanson 23 Oct. in M. F. Maury Explan. & Sailing Direct. (1858) I. xix. 329 I tried it first time anchoring it with 20 fathom line to a 25 pound and boatswain's chair, which brought her up, found the current strong enough to lay her broadside to the wind, two knot breeze. 1920 Wreck of Steamship ‘Ethie’ in Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. (1934) 33 145 We were landed in a rude boatswain's chair, Taken in by the people and treated with care. 1995 Atlantic Sept. 80/1 E. Frank Farrington..was being strapped into a boatswain's chair on the lip of the brooklyn anchorage, eighty feet above the street. < as lemmas |
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