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

3. To propel a canal boat through a tunnel by lying on the boat and pushing against the walls of the tunnel with one's legs. Frequently in to leg through.

a. intransitive. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > propel boat other than by sail or oars [verb (transitive)] > propel through tunnel by legs

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1825 H. H. Joy Thames Navigation 65 The most approved mode of performing it [sc. the passage of a tunnel], videlicet, by lying on your back with your feet uppermost, and kicking or ‘legging’ through.

1888 Spectator 22 Sept. 1296/1 They save expense where they can, and leg through rather than pay us or the tug for taking them through the tunnels.

1953 ‘C. S. Forester’ Hornblower & Atropos i. 11 ‘Damn it,’ he said, ‘I'll help you leg through.’

1993 S. Stewart Ramlin Rose vii. 74 You wasn't allowed to leg durin tug-hours, legging took over two hours and the tug was comin through one way or the other bout every hour.

b. transitive. With the boat or tunnel as object. Now historical.

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1836 G. Head Home Tour 144 Two hours is the time occupied in ‘legging’ a boat through.

1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 421 After legging Harecastle Tunnel..the men were usually completely exhausted.

1891 V. C. Cotes Two Girls on Barge 86 A little..boy was lying on his back, legging the boat along.

1907 Pall Mall Mag. July 114/2 This tunnel has to be ‘legged’ through.

2009 S. Fisher Canals of Brit. x. 48/2 Until 1871 boats were legged through.

单词	to leg through
释义	> as lemmas to leg through 3. To propel a canal boat through a tunnel by lying on the boat and pushing against the walls of the tunnel with one's legs. Frequently in to leg through. a. intransitive. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > propel boat other than by sail or oars [verb (transitive)] > propel through tunnel by legs leg1825 1825 H. H. Joy Thames Navigation 65 The most approved mode of performing it [sc. the passage of a tunnel], videlicet, by lying on your back with your feet uppermost, and kicking or ‘legging’ through. 1888 Spectator 22 Sept. 1296/1 They save expense where they can, and leg through rather than pay us or the tug for taking them through the tunnels. 1953 ‘C. S. Forester’ Hornblower & Atropos i. 11 ‘Damn it,’ he said, ‘I'll help you leg through.’ 1993 S. Stewart Ramlin Rose vii. 74 You wasn't allowed to leg durin tug-hours, legging took over two hours and the tug was comin through one way or the other bout every hour. b. transitive. With the boat or tunnel as object. Now historical. ΚΠ 1836 G. Head Home Tour 144 Two hours is the time occupied in ‘legging’ a boat through. 1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 421 After legging Harecastle Tunnel..the men were usually completely exhausted. 1891 V. C. Cotes Two Girls on Barge 86 A little..boy was lying on his back, legging the boat along. 1907 Pall Mall Mag. July 114/2 This tunnel has to be ‘legged’ through. 2009 S. Fisher Canals of Brit. x. 48/2 Until 1871 boats were legged through. extracted from legv. < as lemmas
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