单词 | water-sneak |
释义 | > as lemmaswater-sneak water-sneak n. slang (now historical) robbery from a waterborne vessel (see quot. 1819); a person who carries out such robberies. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > [noun] > from vessels on water mudlark1796 water-sneak1807 1807 Narr. Life H. Tufts iii. iv. 317 Water sneak, breaking into a vessel. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 223 Water-sneak, robbing ships or vessels on a navigable river or canal, by getting on board unperceived, generally in the night. The water-sneak is lately made a capital offence. 1837 J. Jones Spartacus (ed. 2) iv. iv. 41 Such filching water-sneaks, such Weeds of Men! 1971 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 13 Nov. 84/2 Until Oliver [i.e. the moon] waned..there would be no evening sneaks (burglarizing a house at night) or water sneaks (boarding a ship after dark with intent to steal). 2012 A. Prentice & J. Weil Black Arts xiii. 144 They all turned out for the big day: foisters, whiddlers, the bawkers and the beggars, nippers, rufflers and the water-sneaks. < as lemmas |
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