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单词 stone-boat
释义

stone-boatn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈstone-boat.
1. A boat for transporting stones.
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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.
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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).
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