单词 | to take boat |
释义 | > as lemmasto take boat P1. to take boat: to go on board a boat; to embark. Cf. boat v. 3.In quot. a1425 in the corresponding verbal noun phrase the taking of one's boat. ΚΠ a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 46 (MED) Þe takyng of his boot bitokeneþ his manheed. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke v. f. lxiii He mynded to take bote and to be goen. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 157 Thomas Becket..secretly tooke boate at Rumney. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii.ii sig. D3 You may..take Boate at Bridewell Dock most priuately. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 216 As the Tide made to the Westward, I saw them all take Boat, and row (or paddle, as we call it) all away. 1762 J. Wesley Let. 26 Nov. (1931) IV. 365 As soon as Evening Prayer was over, the tide then serving, I took boat at the Bluff for Carolina. 1831 J. F. Cooper Bravo II. x. 165 They go by the quay to the arsenal; thence they will take boat, as is customary, for the Rialto. 1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 290/2 A story was abroad that Grant had been the last man to take boat at the end of that affair. 1909 E. Lawless Point of View 6 Or—a more seemly burial we'll concede—Take boat and drop it twenty fathoms down. < as lemmas |
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