| 单词 | horse-bay |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorse-bay 3. Applications of the idea of ‘recess’: e.g. horse-bay, the stall for a horse; sick-bay, part of the fore-part of a ship's main-deck, used as a hospital (see also sick adj. and n. Compounds 1a); bomb bay: see bomb bay n. at bomb n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > a receding part bay1582 recess1651 niche1662 shoulder1669 retirement1726 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stall horse-bay1582 trevis1756 box1798 trevis board1833 headpost1844 horse-box1846 stallage1861 feeding-box1883 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > space between decks > at bow bay1867 1582 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 47 Iij swalles for a horse baye 8d. 1851 Art Jrnl. Hist. Great Exhib. 20/1 The crowding of the bays of the galleries. 1863 Cornhill Mag. Feb. 181 Their ‘sick-bay’ probably does not differ from any hospital ward. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Bay, the fore part of a ship between decks before the bitts. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Mar. 6/1 The ‘bays’ between the gun stations..afford shelter to the gunners. < as lemmas |
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