| 单词 | greyhound of the sea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreyhound of the sea 5. A fast ship; spec. an ocean liner specially built for great speed. More fully ocean greyhound, greyhound of the sea and variants. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > passenger vessel > [noun] > fast ocean-going greyhound1843 ocean greyhound1890 1843 W. M. Thackeray Notes Tour Low Countries in Lett. & Papers (1945) II. 831 Certain sailors at a capstan are turning the bar in time to a melancholy howling tune,..a couple of men are cleaning & polishing a greyhound on some piles hard by. 1882 Naut. Mag. Oct. 754 In all ships there are innumerable weak places..; and this was demonstrated in a very forcible way..in one or two of the so-called ‘greyhounds of the oceans’. 1884 W. Bainbridge-Hoff Mod. Naval Tactics 10 ‘Ocean greyhounds.’—Tactical changes likely to occur from great improvement in speed. 1887 Sci. Amer. 1 Jan. 2/2 They [sc. ships]..are so swift of foot, as to have already become formidable rivals to the English ‘greyhounds’. 1888 E. S. Brooks Story Amer. Sailor ix. 185 These were the ‘greyhounds of the seas’, known as clipper ships. 1891 Engineer 9 Oct. 301 The greyhounds of the Atlantic. 1913 F. H. Burnett T. Tembarom xl. 519 An ocean greyhound had landed the pair at the dock. 1990 Cruise Trav. Feb. 42/2 The French Line knew exactly how to give its passengers a whale of a time aboard its speedy greyhound, the France. < as lemmas |
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