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单词 uncle sam's web feet
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Uncle Sam's web feet
a. A member of the navy. Chiefly in plural, esp. in Uncle Sam's web feet, Uncle Samuel's web feet. Now rare.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun]
water?1570
man-of-war1599
navy-man1679
man-of-war's-man1745
blue jacket1776
ocean-warrior1801
blue1806
web foot1846
gobby1883
nautic1909
1846 Spirit of Times 6 June 177/1 The drilling of ‘Uncle Samuel's’ ‘web feet’, or ‘barnacle backs’.
1863 A. Lincoln Let. 16 Aug. in War Policy of Admin. 5 Nor must Uncle Sam's web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present.
1883 Internal Revenue Rec. 15 Oct. 335/1 The Army officers nearly died of laughter at seeing the ‘web feet’ drilling in the school of the soldier.
1916 Boston City Club Bull. Jan. 42 Colonel Harry LeRoy Hawthorne..graduated a cadet engineer in the United States Navy, ceased to be a web-foot and went into an artillery regiment.
1949 Washington Post 27 Jan. 10/7 I regretted to see..a full page picture of midshipmen marching in the inaugural parade, whereas you had only a small picture of the West Point Cadets, whose marching precision is far superior to that of the ‘web feet’.
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