| 单词 | woman boat |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswoman boat woman boat n. now rare = women's boat n. at Compounds 5. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > skin kayak1767 women's boat1767 umiak1769 woman's boat1769 woman boat1831 bidarka1834 1831 F. W. Beechey Narr. Voy. to Pacific I. x. 331 This boat, called by the natives oomiac, is the same in every respect as the oomiac, or woman boat of the Esquimaux. It is here used by the men instead of by the women. 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 146 Big skin ‘woman-boats’, when the dogs and the babies lay among the feet of the rowers. 1929 Pop. Mech. June 1003/1 The only summer visitors are an occasional hunting party in an umiak—otherwise a ‘woman boat’—which has places for ten or a dozen women to row while the men rest at ease. < as lemmas |
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