| 单词 | to pull, row stroke |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pull, row stroke d. The oarsman who sits nearest to the stern of the boat, and whose ‘stroke’ sets the time for the other rowers (= stroke-oar n., stroke-oarsman n. at Compounds 3, strokesman n.). Also quasi-adv. in to pull, row stroke. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > rower or oarsman > oarsman in specific position in boat strokesman1769 middleman1801 stroke1825 bowman1829 bow1830 stroke-oar1836 stroke-oarsman1838 bow-oar1851 midship1897 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 32 In a water party he was a stroke of the ten oar. [Note A first rate waterman.] 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins II. xiv. 306 Their talk was principally of boating,..with discussions on the merits of the ‘strokes’ of the different boats. 1845 in Brasenose Ale 77 Thus spake the prince, who set us all afloat, And pull'd first stroke in the old Brasenose boat. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxiv. 301 He pulls stroke in the Boniface boat. 1868 Field 4 July 14/2 Hall's rowing as stroke was very different to his execution of the past two years. 1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 298/1 (Rowing) Stroke, (2) the oarsman who sits nearest the stern of the boat and sets the work to the men behind him. The side upon which his oar projects is called ‘stroke side’ all the way up the boat. < as lemmas |
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