α. Middle English hagbotes (plural), 1600s– hagboat.
β. 1700s hogboat.
单词 | hagboat |
释义 | hagboatn.α. Middle English hagbotes (plural), 1600s– hagboat. β. 1700s hogboat. Now historical. A type of large seagoing vessel with a square stern and a fuller body than a frigate, formerly used both as a warship and in the timber and coal trades. Cf. hackboat n.1 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > types of vessel used for war trade > [noun] dromond13.. hagboat1353 cog1373 cog ship1376 carrackc1386 dromedary?c1475 galleon1529 drumbler1598 hag1725 CAM1943 1353 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/170) No. 7, item 2 Le venderdy en la feste des almes lan de mesme le vynt et syme vyndront dieux hagbotes de seland charges de Seel Onyonis Ayle et tourbes. 1697 C. Codrington Let. 5 July in Cal. State Papers: Amer. & W. Indies 1696–7 (1904) 538 Fourteen days ago they [sc. French privateers] took a large hag-boat of the London fleet, of considerable value, off this island. 1720 Weekly Jrnl. 6 Feb. 370/1 They came out 33 Sail, but..one of the 36 Guns, formerly an English Hog-Boat, and sold to the Portuguese, was taken by the Pirates. 1738 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 2) II. 176 The Ships that bring them [sc. coals], Cats, and Hags, or Hag-boats, Fly-boats, and the like. 1794 J. L. Buchanan Gen. View Fishery Great Brit. ii. 37 The vessels most proper for whale fishing in that dangerous place [sc. Greenland] are called fly boats, cats, or hag boats. 1941 W. G. Saltonstall Ports of Piscataqua ii. 23 Portsmouth launched a fly-boat or hag-boat of 250 tons. 2000 W. R. Miles Royal Navy & Northeastern N. Amer., 1689–1713 (M.A. thesis, St. Mary's Univ., Canada) v. 179 In order to better facilitate repairs, Crowe ordered the hagboat's commander, Captain Ramsey, to place a mast on the hulk so it could be used as a second service vessel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1353 |
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