单词 | whale-boat |
释义 | whale-boatn. (a) A long carvel-built boat, sharp at both ends, and steered with a rudder or an oar, used in whale-fishing. (b) A boat of this kind carried as a life-boat by large passenger-steamers and warships. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > whaling vessel Greenlandman1659 whale-boat1682 whalefisherman1724 whaleman1767 whaler1806 spouter1815 whale-ship1820 catcher1829 sperm-whaler1834 blubber-boiler1851 plum-puddinger1851 five-boater1887 bay whaler1905 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > boat attendant on larger vessel > [noun] > ship's boat > types of float-boat1322 cocka1400 cockboat1413 longboat1421 cogc1430 cog boat1440 espyne1487 jolywat1495 barge1530 fly-boat1598 gondola1626 cocket-boat1668 yawl1670 whale-boat1682 pinnace1685 launch1697 jolly-boat1728 cutter1745 gig1790 pram1807 jolly1829 whaler1893 1682 Connecticut Public Rec. III. 318 How cam you up into these parts? In a whale boat, wth Ben Gaylord and one Perkins. 1721 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XXXV. 143 A sufficient Army..provided with..a sufficient number of whale-boats for passage by water. 1756 R. Rogers Jrnls. (1769) 13 Our rendezvous was appointed at Albany, from thence to proceed in four whale-boats to lake George. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller (1849) iv. iv. 415 A picked crew of daring fellows set off for her in a whale-boat. 1871 Good Words 12 713 Having come to her moorings, she is immediately surrounded by a multitude of whale-boats. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1682 |
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