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单词 dead noser
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dead noser
1. Nautical. A strong head wind; a wind in one's face. More fully dead noser. Cf. dead wind at dead adj. 31d, nose-ender n. 2. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind as means of propulsion > dead ahead
noser1756
muzzler1857
dead muzzler1874
nose-ender1907
1756 H. Laurens Let. 5 July in Papers (1970) II. 241 Pray what can be become of the Thomas... Tis not improbable he may have met a nozer on the Coast..& bore away to the West Indias.
1852 Beck's Florist 13 The fair wind..soon shifted into an adverse quarter, and off the coast of Scotland..it became a dead noser.
1873 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 303 The hurricane born of Captain Rice's ‘noser’ came on us fourteen hours after.
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