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单词 to turn or peak the flukes
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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’.
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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’.
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