英语词汇“under canvas”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

under canvas

释义

canvas /kanˈvəs/

noun

A coarse cloth made of cotton, hemp or other material, used for sails, tents, etc, and for painting on
The sails of a vessel collectively (nautical)
A tent or tents
A piece of stretched canvas, painted or to be painted
The covered front or back of a racing-boat, as in a canvas-length, win by a canvas (rowing)
Open-weave material on which embroidery or tapestry is worked
The floor of a boxing or wrestling ring
The background against which events occur (lit and figurative)

transitive verb (canˈvassing; canˈvassed)

To cover or line with canvas

ORIGIN: OFr canevas, from L cannabis, from Gr kannabis hemp

canˈvasback noun

A N American duck (Aythyra valisineria), with an ashy white back crossed by dark zigzag lines, closely related to the pochard

canˈvas-climber noun (Shakespeare)

A sailor

canˈvas-stretcher noun

A wooden frame on which canvas is stretched for oil-painting

canˈvas-work noun

Embroidery on canvas, or on cloth over which canvas has been laid to guide the stitches

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