英语词汇“to catch a crab”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

10. Rowing. to catch (rarely cut) a crab: to make a faulty stroke in rowing whereby the oar becomes jammed under water. The resistance of the water against the blade drives the handle against the rower's body with sufficient force (if the boat be in rapid motion) to throw him back out of his seat, and to endanger the capsizing of the boat.

The phrase is not uncommonly applied, from similarity of result, to the action of missing the water with the stroke, or to any other action which causes the rower to fall backward; but this (though found in Dictionaries from Grose onward) is an improper use by the uninitiated.The phrase probably originated in the humorous suggestion that the rower had caught a crab, which was holding his oar down under water; it does not appear to have any historical connection with the Italian pigliare un granchio ‘to catch a crab’, to make a big blunder or complete mistake, ‘toto cælo errare’; all the quots. given by Manuzzi for this phrase are figurative, of conduct, action, etc., e.g. ‘In nessun’ altra cosa l'uom più erra, piglia piu granchi, e fa maggior marroni, che nella cosa della guerra’ (i.e. In no other thing does man err more, catch more crabs, and make greater blunders [literally spades], than in the matter of war).

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society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [verb (intransitive)] > row > make stroke with oar > make faulty stroke

to catch (rarely cut) a crab1785

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Crab To catch a crab, to fall backwards by missing one's stroke in rowing.

1804 Sporting Mag. 23 262 Catching crabs, that is, missing the hold they intend to take of the water with their oar.

1806 C. Wilson Specif. Patent 2964 4 It will clear itself of the water, so as the most inexperienced man can never what is technically called catch a crab, or impede the boat's motion by a resistance against the water in rowing.

1860 G. S. Nares Naval Cadet's Guide 98 When laying on your oars under sail, what should be done with them? Always fling them out of the rowlocks and let them rest abaft in the gunwale. If they were left in the rowlocks and the loom of the oar were not kept..down, it would ‘catch a crab’.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 17 I have been down the river..with some other freshmen..though we bungle and cut crabs desperately at present.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Catch a crab, in rowing, when an oar gets so far beneath the surface of the water, that the rower cannot recover it in time to prevent his being knocked backwards.

1880 Times 27 Sept. 11/3 A boat upset.. because one of the rowers caught a ‘crab’.

单词	to catch a crab
释义	> as lemmas to catch (rarely cut) a crab 10. Rowing. to catch (rarely cut) a crab: to make a faulty stroke in rowing whereby the oar becomes jammed under water. The resistance of the water against the blade drives the handle against the rower's body with sufficient force (if the boat be in rapid motion) to throw him back out of his seat, and to endanger the capsizing of the boat. The phrase is not uncommonly applied, from similarity of result, to the action of missing the water with the stroke, or to any other action which causes the rower to fall backward; but this (though found in Dictionaries from Grose onward) is an improper use by the uninitiated.The phrase probably originated in the humorous suggestion that the rower had caught a crab, which was holding his oar down under water; it does not appear to have any historical connection with the Italian pigliare un granchio ‘to catch a crab’, to make a big blunder or complete mistake, ‘toto cælo errare’; all the quots. given by Manuzzi for this phrase are figurative, of conduct, action, etc., e.g. ‘In nessun’ altra cosa l'uom più erra, piglia piu granchi, e fa maggior marroni, che nella cosa della guerra’ (i.e. In no other thing does man err more, catch more crabs, and make greater blunders [literally spades], than in the matter of war). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [verb (intransitive)] > row > make stroke with oar > make faulty stroke to catch (rarely cut) a crab1785 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Crab To catch a crab, to fall backwards by missing one's stroke in rowing. 1804 Sporting Mag. 23 262 Catching crabs, that is, missing the hold they intend to take of the water with their oar. 1806 C. Wilson Specif. Patent 2964 4 It will clear itself of the water, so as the most inexperienced man can never what is technically called catch a crab, or impede the boat's motion by a resistance against the water in rowing. 1860 G. S. Nares Naval Cadet's Guide 98 When laying on your oars under sail, what should be done with them? Always fling them out of the rowlocks and let them rest abaft in the gunwale. If they were left in the rowlocks and the loom of the oar were not kept..down, it would ‘catch a crab’. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 17 I have been down the river..with some other freshmen..though we bungle and cut crabs desperately at present. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Catch a crab, in rowing, when an oar gets so far beneath the surface of the water, that the rower cannot recover it in time to prevent his being knocked backwards. 1880 Times 27 Sept. 11/3 A boat upset.. because one of the rowers caught a ‘crab’. extracted from crabn.¹ < as lemmas
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