| 单词 | waif-pole |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswaif-pole 2. A small flag used as a signal: = waff n. 1b, waft n.1 6. Now Nautical spec. in whaling. Also attributive, as waif-pole. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > visual signalling > flag signalling > [noun] > signal flag waif1530 waft1562 whiff1693 affirmative flag1796 whift1839 cornet1874 society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whaling equipment > [noun] > lance or pole lancet1753 whale-lance1823 waif-pole1839 whale-pike1851 whale-pole1851 gun-lance1883 1530 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 446 And the watch that beis in Sanct Nicholace stepill to pyt on the waiffs that he hes, to the part of the toun he seis thame cumand to. 1839 J. N. Reynolds in Knickerbocker May 382 Line-tubs, water-kegs, and wafe-poles, were thrown hurriedly into the boats. 1846 T. B. Thorpe Myst. Backwoods 85 As the waiffe of the whaleman [marks] his victim on the sea. 1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors 311 Two waifs, or flags, were immediately set as a signal of distress. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxix. 440 The allusion to the waifs and waif-poles..necessitates some account of the laws and regulations of the whale fishery. 1874 C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals N. Amer. 25 The officer who first discovers it [a whale] sets a waif (a small flag) in his boat, and gives chase. < as lemmas |
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