单词 | unruddered |
释义 | unrudderedadj. Deprived of, or unequipped with, a rudder. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [adjective] > having or not having rudder or tiller steerlessc1374 sternlessc1412 rudderless1606 unruddered1687 ruddered1794 tillerless1870 1687 Revolter 7 The Helm of Fools..fails, And throws unrudder'd Man upon the Rocks. 1783 F. Howard Father's Revenge v. 66 The unrudder'd vessel, All leak and foundering, with less joy descries A sail emerging from the bright horizon. 1804 J. Larwood No Gun Boats 12 Better..to give all..than suffer their Gun Boats to remain in even an unruddered, unmasted, unordonanced existence. 1842 Westm. Rev. Jan. 247 The unruddered fancy united without principle the fallen pointed architecture with the architectural dross of modern Italy. 1910 S. Atlantic Q. July 242 A man with no answer to these questions is as a ship unruddered. 2009 S. Harvey Wilderness (2010) 51 It all had the unruddered perspective of a dream. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1687 |
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