单词 | wreck of a ship |
释义 | > as lemmaswreck of a ship a. A vessel broken, ruined, or totally disabled by being driven on rocks, cast ashore, or stranded; a wrecked or helpless ship; the ruins or hulk of such. Occasionally also wreck of a ship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > wrecked vessel wrackc1386 wreck?a1500 carcass1600 racka1658 silver wreck1700 c1290 Fleta (1647) i. xliv. 61 Item dicitur wreckum navis vel batellus fractus, de quibus nihil vivum evaserit.] ?a1500 Chaucer's Man of Law's T. 415 in Wks. (1532) 24 b The constable of the castel downe is fare To seen this wrecke, & al the shyp he sought. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vuaresque, a wrecke, or ship cast away. 1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 442 Charybdis is a gulfe..which violently attracting all vessels that come too nigh it, deuoureth them, and casteth vp their wrecks. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 80 He shall restore whatever Wrecks may happen on his Coasts. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 220 I could plainly see..the Wreck of a Ship cast away in the Night. 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 14 The Ship is a perfect Wreck. 1764 W. Falconer Shipwreck (new ed.) iii. 112 Three..from the wreck on oars and rafts descend. 1805 J. Turnbull Voy. World (1813) 391 The ship..struck upon a reef of rocks.., and shortly became a total wreck. 1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms i. 32 Fast the miserable Ship Becomes a lifeless wreck. 1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons lxxix The wreck of a little coasting craft still lay about two hundred yards to sea. < as lemmas |
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