单词 | to rake fore and aft |
释义 | > as lemmasto rake fore and aft a. transitive. Military and Nautical. To fire at (a target) with a sweeping movement; to enfilade; spec. to attack (a ship) at the bow or stern and sweep the decks with gunfire (in early use more fully to rake fore and aft). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > assail with gunfire > rake scour1563 rake1596 overrake1599 berake1685 enfilade1706 sweep1748 1596 H. Savile Answer in Libell Spanish Lies 41 Their Shippes were sore beaten and raked thorough, whereby there was such falling backe and lying by the Lee to stoppe their leakes, as some of them were driuen to haste awaye. a1614 R. Standish & R. Croft Jrnl. in T. Best Voy. E. Indies (1934) 121 The Dragon..gave hir a holle [i.e. whole] broadsid for a weldcome; which we did see to raik her thorow and thorow. 1630 J. Taylor Brave Sea-fight in Wks. iii. 39/1 Wee gaue him a whole broad side, euery shot raking him fore and after. c1642 in S. Glover Hist. County of Derby (1829) I. App. 71 When there was no other expectation but of rakeing the towne, instead of being seconded, we were called off. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Scour the length of a Line, to rake a Line from end to end with the Shot, so that every Bullet which comes in at one end, sweeps all along to the other. 1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (1827) VI. xv. vi. 82 Coming forward in boats and raking the dike on each side. 1800 Ld. Nelson 18 Feb. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 189 Captain Peard..lay across his hawse, and raked him with several broadsides. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iv. §6. 207 The English archers were thrown forward to rake the Scottish squares. 1917 E. R. Burroughs Princess of Mars xxvi. 304 With their uncanny marksmanship they raked the on-coming fleet with volley after volley. 1973 Times 13 Feb. 7/1 Mr Rashad al-Shawa, the former mayor of Gaza town, narrowly escaped today when his car was raked by automatic weapon fire. 1990 Combat & Survival Mag. July 18/3 The helicopters jink from side to side as they swoop over your position, raking the area with their cannon for good measure. < as lemmas |
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