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

duff bag n. Navy slang (now historical) a heavy-duty cloth bag for boiling puddings, having a looped cord around its neck used for closure and to remove the cooked pudding from boiling water; (hence) something resembling this bag or its means of closure, esp. a handle formed by tying the ends of a neckerchief to the tapes of a jumper (jumper n.² 1), used as a means of rescuing a sailor from water.

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1828Duff-bag [see main sense].

1850 H. Melville White-jacket xv. 96 After this, I grew desperate; despised popularity; returned scorn for scorn; till at length my week expired, and in the duff-bag I transferred the keys of office to the next man on the roll.

1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 142 The sailors' duffbags.

1909 Sunset Mag. 22 178/1 He was leaning from the bridge, guiding the descent of a little canvas duff bag which he was lowering by means of a line, over the ship's side.

1944 J. Irving Naval Life & Customs ii. 28 Moving further down the sailor's body we come to the twin tapes which secure his jumper at the breast and also confine the ‘duff-bag’ of his knotted silk square.

1967 A. Covey-Crump Gloss. Naval Terms (new ed.) at Silk A square of black silk 36″ square, worn with two diagonally opposite corners knotted together (the knot being worn at the back of the neck beneath the collar, and bight (known as a ‘Duff Bag’) being secured in the tapes of the jumper), so that a drowning man's rescuer would have an efficient handgrip.

单词	duff bag
释义	> as lemmas duff bag duff bag n. Navy slang (now historical) a heavy-duty cloth bag for boiling puddings, having a looped cord around its neck used for closure and to remove the cooked pudding from boiling water; (hence) something resembling this bag or its means of closure, esp. a handle formed by tying the ends of a neckerchief to the tapes of a jumper (jumper n.² 1), used as a means of rescuing a sailor from water. ΚΠ 1828Duff-bag [see main sense]. 1850 H. Melville White-jacket xv. 96 After this, I grew desperate; despised popularity; returned scorn for scorn; till at length my week expired, and in the duff-bag I transferred the keys of office to the next man on the roll. 1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 142 The sailors' duffbags. 1909 Sunset Mag. 22 178/1 He was leaning from the bridge, guiding the descent of a little canvas duff bag which he was lowering by means of a line, over the ship's side. 1944 J. Irving Naval Life & Customs ii. 28 Moving further down the sailor's body we come to the twin tapes which secure his jumper at the breast and also confine the ‘duff-bag’ of his knotted silk square. 1967 A. Covey-Crump Gloss. Naval Terms (new ed.) at Silk A square of black silk 36″ square, worn with two diagonally opposite corners knotted together (the knot being worn at the back of the neck beneath the collar, and bight (known as a ‘Duff Bag’) being secured in the tapes of the jumper), so that a drowning man's rescuer would have an efficient handgrip. extracted from duffn.⁴ < as lemmas
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