单词 | to take the sea |
释义 | > as lemmasto take the sea 17. to take the sea (also †to take sea, the seas, Middle English †to nim the sea). To go on board ship, embark; to start on a sea-voyage, launch forth, put out to sea (said also of the ship). Cf. French prendre la mer. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [verb (intransitive)] > set out on a voyage to go to seac900 to take the seac1275 to go or fere to (the) saila1375 sail1387 to make saila1500 to set sail1513 lance1526 launch1534 to put off1582 to put out?1587 to put forth1604 to come to sail1633 underweigh1891 to take sail1904 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2477 Þer he þa sæ [c1300 Otho see] nom. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 643 Bi Ruscikadan heo nomen þa sæ [c1300 Otho see]. c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 4099 And Achilles toke the see With his vitayles and his naue. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxiv. 530 Reynawde dyde doo hale vp saylle, & toke the see. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 287 The maryners,..beeyng lothe to take ye seaes, Pompeius hymself first of al entreed into the shippe. a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 184 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) For want of skill they could not take the seas, but were tossed with winde and weather, along the Coast. 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. iv. 68 The 27. of April he tooke sea at Dover. 1867 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. July 25 The first hymn of Orpheus as Argo takes the sea. 1890 S. Lane-Poole Barbary Corsairs vii. 83 He..was able to take the sea with a fleet of eighty-four vessels. 1903 Daily Chron. 30 July 3/1 All the ships..are able to touch 24 knots, but their lines and the way they take the sea is cause of common complaint. < as lemmas |
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