单词 | goelette |
释义 | goeletten. 1. A light schooner-rigged sailing boat used chiefly in North America, typically broad-beamed with two masts. Cf. gulet n. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1760 tr. T. Pichon Genuine Lett. & Mem. Islands Cape Breton, & St. John xiv. 221 They likewise sell to our merchants a kind of boats, called goelettes. 1840 Times 28 Oct. 5/6 This will make them 11 line-of-battle ships, one steamer, and the Admiral's tender, the goelette la Mésange. 1851 J. C. Pitrat Americans warned of Jesuitism 19 I took passage on a goelëtte, sailing to St. Thomas (a Danish colony). 1873 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) July 540 His companion..had parted from him in the goelette (or schooner) Felicidad. 1993 H. Doblin tr. J. F. von Hille Amer. Revol. 41 The large baggage was taken to Trois-Rivières in goelettes. 2. Canadian. A type of boat, originally a small schooner (cf. sense 1), in later use a flat-bottomed motor-driven vessel, used for carrying freight on the St Lawrence River in Quebec. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of sedge-boat1336 shout1395 scout1419 pink1471 punt-boatc1500 palander1524 pram1531 punt1556 bark1598 sword-pink1614 pont1631 schuit1666 pontoon1681 bateau1711 battoe1711 flight1769 scow1780 keel-boat1786 ferry flat1805 ark1809 panga1811 mackinaw boat1812 mudboat1824 pinkie1840 mackinaw1842 sharpie1860 sculling float1874 pass-boat1875 sled1884 scow sloop1885 sharp1891 johnboat1894 ballahoo1902 pram1929 goelette1948 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > with specific rig > fore and aft rigged > schooner > schooner-rigged vessels schooner-frigate1799 mackinaw boat1812 ballahoo1815 schooner barge1819 Jack1845 schooner-yacht1876 bugeye1877 jackass schooner1879 buckeye1885 butterman1885 schooner yawl1889 ram1904 Tancook schooner1933 goelette1948 1948 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 32 231 We see the villages of Petite Rivière St-François engaged in building..a little goélette, a small schooner for the river trade on the St. Lawrence. 1958 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 22 Mar. 3/1 Goelettes mostly carry pulpwood and sometimes sail as far as the Great Lakes. 1994 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 13 Aug. h1 An old goelette, one of the ships that carried lumber up and down the St. Lawrence, lies here. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1760 |
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