英语词汇“to turn or peak the flukes”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. plural. ‘The two parts which constitute the large triangular tail of the whale’ (Adm. Smyth). to turn or peak the flukes: of a whale, to go under (see quot. 1839); hence transferred (Nautical slang) to go to bed, ‘turn in’.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > parts of > parts of tail

flukes1726

small1726

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > go to bed or retire to rest [verb (intransitive)]

to go to (one's) resteOE

to take (one's) restc1175

to go to bedc1275

to lie downc1275

reposec1485

down-lie1505

bed1635

to turn in1695

retire1696

lay1768

to go to roost1829

to turn or peak the flukes1851

kip1889

doss1896

to hit the hay1912

to hit the deck1918

to go down1922

to bunk down1940

to hit the sack1943

to sack out1946

to sack down1956

1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 256 While young, and carried by the Dam on the Flukes of their Tails.

1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 44 The flukes are then lifted high into the air, and the animal..descends perpendicularly..this act..is called by whalers ‘peaking the flukes’.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick iii. 21 It's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes—it's a nice bed.

1860 G. Hartwig tr. Sea & its Living Wonders vi. 79 The tail-fin, or ‘flukes’.

单词	to turn or peak the flukes
释义	> as lemmas to turn or peak the flukes 2. plural. ‘The two parts which constitute the large triangular tail of the whale’ (Adm. Smyth). to turn or peak the flukes: of a whale, to go under (see quot. 1839); hence transferred (Nautical slang) to go to bed, ‘turn in’. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > parts of > parts of tail flukes1726 small1726 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > go to bed or retire to rest [verb (intransitive)] to go to (one's) resteOE to take (one's) restc1175 to go to bedc1275 to lie downc1275 reposec1485 down-lie1505 bed1635 to turn in1695 retire1696 lay1768 to go to roost1829 to turn or peak the flukes1851 kip1889 doss1896 to hit the hay1912 to hit the deck1918 to go down1922 to bunk down1940 to hit the sack1943 to sack out1946 to sack down1956 1726 P. Dudley in Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 256 While young, and carried by the Dam on the Flukes of their Tails. 1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 44 The flukes are then lifted high into the air, and the animal..descends perpendicularly..this act..is called by whalers ‘peaking the flukes’. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick iii. 21 It's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes—it's a nice bed. 1860 G. Hartwig tr. Sea & its Living Wonders vi. 79 The tail-fin, or ‘flukes’. extracted from fluken.² < as lemmas
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