| 单词 | to be becalmed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be becalmed a. Nautical. To shelter from, or deprive (a ship) of, wind; usually in passive to be becalmed: to lie motionless for want of wind. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > keep wind from a ship or becalm encalm1562 becalmc1595 beleea1616 calma1616 blanket1884 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > be impeded by wind > be becalmed to be becalmedc1595 c1595 T. Maynarde Sir Francis Drake his Voy. (1849) 8 Being becalmed under the lee of the land. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiii. 62 To martiall..those squadrons..a good berth or distance from each other, that they becalme not one another. 1704 in London Gaz. No. 4033/1 The Charles Gally..being becalmed, was attacked. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 1 The fleet was becalmed off the Godwin Sands. < as lemmas |
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