单词 | water ship |
释义 | > as lemmaswater ship water ship n. now historical †(a) (perhaps) a ferry boat (obsolete rare); †(b) a kind of tugboat formerly used off the Dutch coast (obsolete); (c) a ship used to carry fresh water. [Compare Middle Dutch, Dutch waterschip kind of shallow-draft fishing vessel with water tanks to keep the fish alive (14th cent.), this kind of ship used to tow larger vessels through shallow water, especially the Pampus, a muddy shoal off Amsterdam (1598 in the passage translated in quot. 1601), ship used to carry fresh water to supply settlements (1671); in sense (b) after Dutch.] ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying food or water water ship1653 paddy boat1698 pippiner1725 ark1809 beef-boat1836 forage-boat1848 fruiter1860 fruit-clipper1864 oranger1880 c1400 in J. L. Fisher Medieval Farming Gloss. (1968) 40 Waterschippe. 1601 W. Walker tr. J. C. van Neck Jrnl. Voy. Eight Shippes of Amsterdam f. 1v The great ships were towed ouer the Pampus by three water ships [Du. waterschepen]. 1653 Duke of Albemarle 2 Lett. from Fleet 5 I earnestly desire you will take care that a considerable proportion may be suddenly provided for us and sent, with such Victuals and Waterships as are yet behinde. 1688 W. Carr Remarks Govt. Germanie 41 The great Shipps built at Amsterdam had like to have proved of no use, had not the ingenious Pensionarie de Wit found out a devise to carry them over the Pampus, betwixt those they call Water Shipps. 1805 C. Collingwood Let. 18 Oct. in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. 127 (note) I shall be glad to see the Water-Ships as many of the Fleet are getting low. 1902 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 5 Dec. 9/7 The watership Arethusa sailed today for Culebra, carrying 2,800 tons of water for Dewey's fleet. 2010 R. Knight & M. Wilcox Sustaining the Fleet 61 By November that year [sc. 1809] the veteran ex-East Indiaman Glatton..was moored at Sheerness as a ‘water ship’. < as lemmas |
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