| 单词 | false ports |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfalse ports a. Navy and Military. Counterfeited for the purpose of deception; feigned, pretended; as in false attack, false lights, false ports, false signal.to show, hang out false colours, under false colour(s: see colour n.1 Phrases 3. ΚΠ c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 174 He set hom a cas What fortune might falle vndur fals colour. 1677 London Gaz. No. 1179/2 One towards Mount Azine, which some look upon to be only a false Attack. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World ix. 252 Had we entred the Port upon the false signal we must have been taken or sunk. 1765–93 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (ed. 12) i. 294 Putting out false lights in order to bring any vessel into danger. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Faux sabords, false ports, painted in a ship's side, to deceive an enemy. 1809 J. Roland Amateur of Fencing 102 Various small motions made without longing, are termed false attacks. 1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 25/2 False attack, a feigned or secondary movement in the arrangements of an assault, intended to divert the attention of an enemy from the real or principal attack. < as lemmas |
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