释义 |
niner rare.|ˈnaɪnə(r)| [-er1.] 1. A criminal who is sentenced to imprisonment for nine years.
1897Warung Tales Old Regime 219 Pedder was a ‘sevener’, Blake was a ‘niner’. 2. Formerly, a senior naval cadet in the training-ship Britannia.
1914‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions ix. 63 Jerry had to submit to strange indignities and stranger torments at the hands of Olympian ‘Niners’ (Fourth-term Cadets). |