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单词 careenage
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careenagen.

/kəˈriːnɪdʒ/
Etymology: < careen v. + -age suffix; compare French carénage.
(a) The careening of a ship; elliptical the expense of this. (b) A careening-place (cf. anchorage n.1 2a).In sense b the French carénage is much used, esp. in the West Indies, and parts of North America.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > shipyard or boat-yard > [noun] > careening place
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1779 B. Franklin Wks. (1889) VI. 432 I approve of the careenage for the Alliance as a thing necessary.
1794 Sir J. Jervis in Naval. Chron. X. 462 The Asia and Zebra were appointed..to enter the careenage.
1829 London Encycl. V. 161 Careenage is the place where the operation is performed, and also the money given for careening.
1841 J. W. Orderson Creoleana v. 45 The whole line of the carenage being..one continuous sloping bank of slime.
attributive.1877 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 6) V. ii. 372 [He] crossed the Careenage Ravine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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