单词 | to tide it |
释义 | > as lemmasto tide it a. intransitive. To float or drift on the tide; spec. Nautical, to navigate a ship by taking advantage of favouring tides, and anchoring when the tide turns; usually with adverb of direction. Often to tide it. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of tides > [verb (intransitive)] > go with or take advantage of tide vail1544 avalea1547 to tide it1627 drop1790 to tide one's way1827 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of tides > use tide [verb (transitive)] > navigate ship by using tide tide1627 the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > be carried (away) by current or tide fleetc897 to-fleeta1122 wash1623 roll1665 tide1896 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. x. 47 To Tide ouer to a place, is to goe ouer with the Tide of ebbe or flood, and stop the contrary by anchoring till the next Tide. 1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 244 Our fleet..are now sailed out, and are now tiding it down with the wind directly against them. 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 3 Aug. (1965) I. 248 We..set out in a calm, and he pretended that there was nothing so easy as to tide it over [from Gravesend to Holland]. 1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida I. xxvi. 276 We tided and warped how we could. 1893 H. M. Doughty Our Wherry in Wendish Lands 71 We could in the morning tide it up further with the flood. 1896 A. Austin England's Darling iv. ii Hither there tided The loose-limbed Briton. < as lemmas |
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