| 单词 | hatchman |
| 释义 | > as lemmashatchman hatchman n. †(a) a prison warder, a turnkey (obsolete rare); (b) Nautical a person who helps to load and unload cargo through a ship's hatch. ΚΠ 1785 Parl. Reg. Ireland V. 31 The bailiff demanded 1l. 17s. for his room, hatch-man, maid, &c. 1787 Parl. Reg. Ireland VII. 202 The gaoler..is also obliged to keep a hatch-man, turnkey, together with two servant women. 1894 Law Mag. Feb. 91 The appellants contracted with a stevedore to unload their ship, and the contract provided that the owners should provide for each hatch one winch-driver and one hatch-man. 1915 C. B. Barnes Longshoremen App. A 183 On deck, three or four men are worked,—a hatch man, a winch man, the man at the engine on the pier, and sometimes an assistant hatchman to ‘strike over’. 2015 Nelson Mail (N.Z.) (Nexis) 29 Apr. 5 A company hatchman, assisting with cargo unloading, was injured when he fell while working on a container vessel. < as lemmas |
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