| 单词 | uncle sam's web feet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasUncle 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. ΘΚΠ 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’. < as lemmas |
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