| 单词 | to have sea-room | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > 			[noun]		 > space to manoeuvre ship sea-room?a1554 ?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. < as lemmas  | 
	
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