单词 | stone-boat |
释义 | stone-boatn. 1. A boat for transporting stones. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying other cargoes stone-boatc1336 ballast boat1665 mast ship1666 luggage-boat1720 hide-drogher1841 oil ship1851 blubber-boat1884 slate-galiot1887 nitre ship1896 treasure-galleon1898 treasure-ship1900 c1336 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 533 Qui..reduxerunt Batellum vidz. le Stanbate. 1471 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 25 Of ilk stane bot lossand in the havin j d. 1505 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 280 Ane stane bote at the New Havin. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2403/1 De Cessart's machine for throwing large stones into the sea consisted of a pontoon carrying an inclined plane [etc.]. [title of figure] De Cessart's Stone-Boat. 2. U.S. (chiefly northern) and Canadian. A flat-bottomed sled used for transporting or removing stones, and for other purposes. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of goods sleadc1374 draya1387 sled1388 slipe1488 slid1513 drag1576 sledge1684 skid1712 paddock1738 sleigh1748 train1783 bobsled1796 bobsleigh1841 bob1856 stone-boat1859 travois1873 slider1888 bobs1910 1859 N. P. Willis Convalescent 75 A stone-boat would run glibly over such a shallow snow! 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2393/1 The rise in front enables the stone-boat to ride over small obstacles. 1901 ‘R. Connor’ Man from Glengarry 189 In the afternoon the colt was put through her morning experience, with the variation that the stone-boat was piled up with a fairly heavy load of earth and stone. 1906 Daily Chron. 21 Sept. 4/4 They fetch the water every day in a barrel fixed in a kind of sled called a stone boat. 1962 J. Onslow Bowler-hatted Cowboy viii. 79 A stone-boat is best described as a heavy wooden sled, on which can be hauled rocks and stones..dead cows, sick cows, or other heavy objects. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1336 |
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