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† bonaˈventure Obs.
[app. ad. It. buonaventura good luck; in quot. 1592 the name of a ship; of the generic use no explanation appears.]
1. A kind of boat or ship.
1592Breton Pilgr. Paradise Wks. 1875–9 I. 15 The pilgrime must imbarke, Within a shippe the Buonaventure named. 1614Way to Wealth in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 235 Busses, bonadventures, or fisher-ships.
2. ‘The old outer mizen, long disused,’ Smyth, Sailor's Word-bk.
c1500Cocke Lorelles B. (1843) 12 Some pulled up the bonauenture, Some to howes the tope sayle dyde entre. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen (Arb.) 13. 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn. s.v. Missen-Mast, Some great Ships require two [missens]; then that next the Main-mast is the Main-missen; and that next the Poop, the Bonaventure-missen.
3. ? An adventurer; cf. boneventor,
1598Chapman Blinde Begg. Plays 1873 I. 14 Oh sir, you are but bonaventure, not right spanish I perceave. |