单词 | horse-marine |
释义 | † horse-marinen.1 Heraldry. Obsolete. A seahorse. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > fish and sea creatures luce1587 chabot1610 escallop-shell1610 lucy1660 escallop1671 horse-marine1705 1705 London Gaz. No. 4162/4 On a Torse a Demy Horse-Marine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021). horse-marinen.2 1. A marine mounted on horseback, or a cavalryman doing a marine's work. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > marine marinera1450 marine1672 marine soldier1690 maltout1785 jolly1829 horse-marine1878 pongo1890 leatherneck1914 devil dog1918 jarhead1944 society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier > others jousterc1330 knight1489 rutter1506 reister1521 reiter1556 ruiter1579 hargulater1581 lancer1590 lance1602 rutar1610 dragon1620 dragoon1622 right-hand man1626 dragooner1639 leaguerer1639 deli1667 Light Dragoon1700 uhlan1753 sabre1836 parachutist1837 sabreur1845 yellow leg1857 spahi1863 horse-marine1878 uhlaner1886 1878 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 225 This old sea-dog..organized a body of horse-marines to patrol the shore. 1886 Tinsley's Mag. Apr. 321 The 17th Lancers were once christened the ‘Horse marines’. Two troops of this showy corps were employed as marines on board the Hermione frigate during some severe fighting in the West Indies. 2. humorously. (plural) An imaginary corps of mounted marine soldiers, considered as a type of men out of their element; hence, singular a man doing work for which he is not fitted; a ‘landlubber’ on shipboard.tell that to the horse marines: see tell that to the horse marines at tell v. Phrases 10. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > instance of > that which is out of place > person(s) horse-marine1823 a square peg in a round hole1836 misfit1860 odd-come-short1873 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. viii. 197 What the devil has a ship to do with horse's furniture?—Do you think we belong to the horse-marines. 1860 O. W. Holmes Sea Dial. 45 Belay y'r jaw, y' swab! y' hoss-marine! 1892 Wops the Waif i. 1 (Farmer) You'd better tell that to the hoss marines; I've lived a sight too long in Shoreditch to take that in. 1921 W. S. Maugham Circle ii. 65 Elizabeth: He's never even kissed me. Arnold: I'd try telling that to the horse marines if I were you. 3. ‘A man or youth who is engaged in leading and attending to the horse drawing a canal-boat’ ( Lab. Comm. Gloss. 1894). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > associated shore-based personnel > [noun] > one who tows ships by rope > in charge of horse on canal horse-marinec1850 c1850 [Correspt. writes ‘In general use on Regent's Canal’.] c1860 [Used by a witness at the Lindsey Sessions, Lincolns.]. 1881 Census-returns in Brit. Alm. Comp. (1885) 94. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.11705n.21823 |
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