单词 | to make wreck |
释义 | > as lemmasto make wreck a. The disabling or destruction of a vessel by any disaster or accident of navigation; loss of a ship by striking on a rock, stranding, or foundering; an instance of this; = shipwreck n. 2 to make wreck: cf. make v.1 49. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [noun] shipbrechea1067 ship-breaking1398 ship-brechinga1400 shipwreckc1450 wreck1463 wrake1513 wrack1579 naufrage1589 wrecking1775 society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > suffer shipwreck [verb (intransitive)] wrack1470 make1526 to make wreck1577 split1602 shipwreck1607 wreck1671 1463–4 Rolls of Parl. V. 507/1 Yf eny of the forseid Wares or Chaffares..come into this Reame or Wales by wey of wrek. 1477 W. Pecock in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 421 There is a grete chyppe go to wrekke be-for Wynterton. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. i. 9 This Arke..by diuine prouidence..was gouerned from running to wreck. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 490/1 That euery person makyng wrecke by sea, & comming aliue to lande, shoulde haue all his goodes free. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. X4v Learning his ship from those white rocks to saue,..Threatning vnheedy wrecke and rash decay. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Gg1/1 Jetson is a thing cast out of the shippe being in daunger of wrecke. 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. iii. ii. 107 As Seamen, parting in a gen'ral wreck, When first the loosening planks begin to crack Each catches one. 1749 Gentleman's Mag. 396/1 The ill behaviour of his crew, and the bad condition of the ship occasioned its wreck. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 421 Her two eyes..Would keep a sinking ship frae wreck. 1809 R. Warner Tour Cornwall 158 A range of rocks, the terrible scene of many a disastrous wreck. 1844 C. Wilkes Narr. U.S. Exploring Exped. II. 91 In leaving the harbour we had a narrow escape from wreck. 1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. Prol. 15 We are..shipwrecked sailors; and I will tell the story of the wreck. < as lemmas |
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