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单词 to have sea-room
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to have sea-room
Space at sea free from obstruction in which a ship can be manœuvred easily. Esp. in to have sea-room, also to give or take sea-room. Also, (of a naval commander) †to give (the enemy) sea-room: to take flight.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > space to manoeuvre ship
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?a1554 H. Willoughby in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 269 Then perceiuing it to be a lee shoare, we gat vs into the sea, to the end to haue sea roome.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 403 This ouerthrow made his enemies despise him vtterly, who perswaded them selues he was fled for altogether, and had giuen them sea roome.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xi. 45 But Sea-roome, and the brine and cloudy billow Kisse the Moone, I care not. View more context for this quotation
1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. I8 Giue him Sea-roome in neuer so small a vessell.
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (1631) iii. 580 When so little Sea-roome did divide Both fleetes.
1698 Capt. Langford in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 410 So with the North Wind they may run away to the South, to get them~selves Sea-room.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. x. 104 We had sufficient sea-room.
1884 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 9 348 The danger in the gulf is greater, because there is less sea-room there.
figurative.1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 198 If a word be issued out of the mouth, as out of her haven, and have gotten sea~roome,..away she goes.1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. xliii. 215 Leave her sea-room, leave her land-room, and let her have time to consider, and she will be a Bride.1842 H. Ware in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. 449 You want more sea-room for so grand an idea.
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