| 单词 | fire beacon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire beacon fire beacon n. [compare Dutch vuurbaken (already in Middle Dutch in more general sense), vuurbaak , Middle Low German vǖrbāke , all denoting kinds of seamark; in 1584 after Dutch vuurboet, †vierbot (now regional; Middle Dutch vuurboete), in the same sense] ΚΠ 1584 R. Norman tr. C. Antoniszoon Safegard of Sailers f. 23 If you will anker in the Fossis by Fecam, you shall bring the mill and the fire beacon [Du. vierbode] in one, and keeping them so, go in west to the single, and anker betweene the head of the Hordelles and Reihem. 1625 A. Darcie tr. W. Camden Hist. Elizabeth iii. 22 The fire-beacons giuing light by night, which were to direct them by their Sea-markes ouer the Shallowes, and by the Shelues, bankes, & Rocks. 1804 Edinb. Rev. 3 430 The Amonian firebeacons. 1971 Country Life 30 Sept. 788/2 The Romans established fire-beacon signal stations along our east and south coasts. 2012 Xinhua Gen. News Service (Nexis) 4 June The Queen lit a fire beacon, the final beacon in a series of 4,200 beacons to be lit in celebration [of the diamond jubilee] across Britain and the Commonwealth. < as lemmas |
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