| 单词 | windlipper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswind-lipper A rippling, slight ruffling of the surface of the sea. Often collective. Also wind-lipper. See also quot. 1867. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [noun] > slight sea lipper1513 wind-lipper1789 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. ix. 119 Lyk as the see changis fyrst his hew In quhyt lippiris by the wyndis blast. 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 2 221 A deal of sea and wind lipper. 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. xv. 224 As to the seas, they runs more in lippers in the Bay of Biscay. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 105 There's no great sets o' wind, but a great deal of lipper on. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lipper, a sea which washes over the weather chess-tree, perhaps leaper. Also, the spray from small waves breaking against a ship's bows. 1882 Good Cheer 33 A light breeze was blowing, making what sailors call a lipper on the surface of the water. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 July 6/2 The approaching torpedo, so clearly identifiable by..the lipper of its ‘wake’. wind-lipper wind-lipper n. [lipper n.1] Nautical a rippling or ruffling of the surface of the water caused by the first rising of a breeze. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [noun] > slight sea lipper1513 wind-lipper1789 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 2 210 We can do nothing with the guns when there is any swell, or wind lipper. 1815 W. Scoresby in Mem. Wernerian Soc. II. 324 (note) The first effects of a breeze of wind on smooth water is by seamen called wind-lipper. < as lemmas |
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