| 单词 | submarine-hunting |
| 释义 | > as lemmassubmarine-hunting a. In sense B. 2, in submarine attack, submarine base, submarine-chasing, submarine-hunting, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [adjective] > of or relating to submarine submarine1897 U-boat1915 1897 Knowledge Jan. 20/1 All the great naval Powers are busily engaged in bringing submarine warfare to a perfect system of attack. 1908 C. Field Story of Submarine 183 The rise of the Russian submarine flotilla. 1917 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 209/2 Not long after perfecting his submarine-proof ocean freighter. 1930 19th Cent. Mar. 292 The submarine attack..successfully defended the Adriatic. 1941 I. Halstead Heroes of Atlantic 66 The valuable French convoy-escorting ships and submarine-hunting vessels were withdrawn from our support. 1979 O. Sela Petrograd Consignment 17 The chiefs..had decided to end the blockade by declaring unrestricted submarine warfare. 1986 T. Clancy Red Storm Rising (1988) xxxviii. 659 He might now be in a submarine-dedicated sector, and submarines were by far the more dangerous opponents. 1994 D. J. Warren Old Med. & Dental Instruments 21/1 Baby feeders for dispensing milk include pear-shaped pewter bottles and the more common submarine-shaped feeders. 2005 D. Nicholls Understudy 13 Stumbling backwards through a sugar-glass window into the submarine dock below. < as lemmas |
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