| 单词 | sprat boat | 
| 释义 | > as lemmassprat boat  C1.   General attributive and objective, as  sprat boat,  sprat catcher,  sprat fishing,  sprat net,  sprat season, etc. ΚΠ 1653    Mercurius Democritus No. 70. 554  				A York shire Bumkin..residing in Watling-street (but not many moneths since a Sprat-Merchant in Middlebrough). 1669    W. Wycherley Hero & Leander in Burlesque 3  				He was a Sprat-catcher, or good Eele-bobber. 1702    T. Brown tr.  G. B. Gelli Circe i. 22  				I have..left the company of a Sprat-catcher, to fall into the Hands of a Plough-jobber. 1800    Oracle & Daily Advertiser 10 Feb.  				Were you ever at Billinsgate [sic] on a night of the Sprat season? 1837    Penny Cycl. VII. 277/1  				Sprat-fishing commences in the early part of November. 1862    Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II.  xix. §3799  				Mackerel, herring, pilchard, and sprat nets. 1935    Mariner's Mirror 21 6  				An Aldeburgh sprat boat of sound pedigree. 1969    Mariner's Mirror 55 412  				The ‘crook’, a kind of boathook..was used for getting in sprat nets. 2013    Baltic News Service 		(Nexis)	 11 June  				As Estonia's sprat fishing quota is insufficient several Estonian companies are operating in Finland. < as lemmas | 
| 随便看 | 
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。