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单词 steerage room
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steerage room
steerage room n. Obsolete = sense 4.
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1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 11 In the stearage roome, the whip, the bittakell, the trauas boord, the Compasse.
extracted from steeragen.
steerage room
4. That division of the after part of a ship which is immediately in front of the chief cabin; the second cabin. Also called †steerage room.In the 16th and 17th centuries this was the place from which the ship was steered. Early in the 18th cent. the wheel was placed on the open deck, so that the vessel was no longer steered from the ‘steerage’, which, however, retained its name.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > cabin > immediately in front of chief cabin
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1612 R. Coverte True Rep. Englishman 24 The Merchants had some 10000 l. lying betweene the maine Maste and the Stearidge.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 11 The Stearage. The Stearage roome, is before the great Cabin, where he that steareth the Ship doth alwaies stand.
1644 H. Mainwaring Sea-mans Dict. The Stieridge is the place where they Steere, out of which they may see the leech of the sailes.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World ii. 25 This insolence being carried on in the steeradge.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Steerage, an apartment without the great cabin of a ship, from which it is separated by a thin partition. In large ships of war it is used as a hall through which it is necessary to pass..from the great cabin. In merchant-ships it is generally the habitation of the inferior officers and ship's crew.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xvi. 251 I went down into the most solitary place in the steerage, that I might enjoy it [sc. a letter] without interruption.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxiii. 71 The mate came down into the steerage, in fine trim for fun.
1864 R. Semmes Cruise Alabama & Sumter I. 269 Passing through the ward-room, the visitor entered the gun~room, or ‘steerage’, allotted on the starboard side to the midshipmen, and on the port to the engineers.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Steerage,..that part of the ship next below the quarter-deck, immediately before the bulkhead of the great cabin in most ships of war. The portion of the 'tween-decks just before the gun-room bulkhead.
extracted from steeragen.
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