单词 | thawt |
释义 | thawtn. Now chiefly regional. A rower's bench; = thwart n.2 ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > seat in a boat > for rower(s) thoftc1000 thawt1589 bank1595 thwart1736 oar-bench1856 zygon1888 1589 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 70 Bought a pese of tymber to make the bote thaught & for 2 knees. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea liv. 129 His boate fitted with Sayle, Oares, thougts, tholes danyd, windles and rother. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vi. 27 Thoughts are the seats whereon the Rowers sit. 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 57 It did breake two thoughts of our Boat. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xv. 27/1 The thaughts and seats they sit on to rowe. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 118 These Canoas were fitted with Thoats or Benches. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 187 Three Muskets which were lashed under the Thouts or Benches of the Canoe. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 428 Thowts, the seats of rowers in a boat—the thwarts perhaps; or what go across. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Thought, an old spelling of thwart. 1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log 172 We turned-to and lashed the nets down from thawt to thawt. 1944 Mariner's Mirror 30 102 To the thawt abaft the sheet the pump is fixed amidships, its ‘well-room’ being beneath the boards at the bottom of the net-room. 2003 St John's (Newfoundland) Telegram (Nexis) 21 May a11 Scene: a boat out on the bay; any boat, any bay, any day. Sir John of Efford is seated on the thawt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1589 |
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