| 释义 |
dipsey, -sie, -sy
var. of deep-sea (apparently associated with dip), esp. in dipsy-lead, dipsey-line.
1626–1698 [see deep sea]. 1837Marryat Dog-Fiend xliii, I may..as well go down like a dipsey lead. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., Dipsy, a term applied, in some parts of Pennsylvania, to the sinker of a fishing-line. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Dipsy, the float of a fishing-line. |