单词 | white-water |
释义 | white-waterv. Nautical colloquial. Somewhat rare. intransitive. Of a whale: to splash with the tail so as to make the water white with foam. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [verb (intransitive)] > miscellaneous actions of whale calvec1000 spout1683 blow1726 peak1839 sound1839 fluke1840 mill1840 breach1843 white-water1856 round1881 1856 C. Nordhoff Whaling & Fishing xii. 224 The mate, who was at the main royal masthead, sang out lustily, ‘There she whitewaters.’ 1897 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ (1899) xiv. 170 There she white-waters! Ah blo-o-o-o-w! 1922 W. J. Hopkins She Blows! xxv. 246 The hail came down from aloft: ‘There she breaches! And white waters!’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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