单词 | to lay close |
释义 | > as lemmasto lay close d. Nautical. to lay (a ship) aboard: to manoeuvre one's own ship alongside (another) for the purpose of boarding or fighting. Also in extended use. So to lay close, to lay athwart the hawse. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > perform operation or manoeuvre [verb (transitive)] > come alongside to fight to board withc1460 boarda1513 to lay (a ship) aboard1569 to clap (a vessel) aboard, on board1583 to lay (a ship) on board1677 to lay close1799 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. viii. 115 It is difficile and harde to laye abord about the beake or forebough of a Gallie. 1588 Holy Bull & Crusade Rome 30 Nowe the Heretickes are layde aboorde, wherby men may perceiue that this good father is not bent against the Turks, but onely against those which will not acknowledge him. 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 99 We manned out our Skiffe in like case to laye him aboorde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 26 I lost mine eye in laying the prize aboord. View more context for this quotation 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iii. ii. 35 in Wks. II Now were a fine time for thee, Win-wife, to lay aboard thy widdow. a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) iv. 416 Shall we grapple, and lay their Ship aboard? 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 19 That if we should be laid aboard, we might clear our Decks. 1707 London Gaz. No. 4369/3 The Sloop soon laid her aboard. 1731 W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 2 July A Collier lay'd us athwart the Hawse, and broke our Flying Jib Boom [etc.]. 1739 Encour. Sea-f. People 39 The Superbe putting for it to lay the Admiral aboard, fell on his Weather Quarter. 1799 Ld. Nelson Let. 9 Feb. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) III. 260 Lay a Frenchman close, and you will beat him. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. xxiv. 205 A bark from Lorn Laid them aboard that very morn. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. xi. 90 Why, how many tall ships, think ye, now, have I seen laid aboard? 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xi. 99 We may meet in with a king's ship and she may lay us aboard, sir, with no blame of mine. 1909 Chatterbox 18/2 The San Philip laid the Revenge aboard, side by side, and poured a broadside into her. < as lemmas |
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