单词 | hull out |
释义 | > as lemmashull out b. hull down: so far away that the hull is invisible, being below the horizon; also attributive and figurative. Used also of a tank (see quot. 19482). So hull out: with the hull above the horizon. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [phrase] > with hull below or above horizon hull out1775 1775 in Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) (1779) 68 395 The vessel was hull down when they came aboard. 1804 Naval Chron. 12 318 As soon as she was hull out I made sail. 1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 283 Exclaimed, ‘She is hull down’, meaning that..the convexity of the sea between us and the ship was greater than the height of the body of the vessel. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 180 They were hull-down for us behind life's ocean, and we but hailed their topsails on the line. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 29 Nov. 1/3 He shook his fist at the hull-down coasting schooner. 1905 J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide xiv. 264 You've got me beat, hull down. 1933 ‘L. Luard’ All Hands 132 We was goin' to see our Mary [Pickford]. Don't alf 'old with 'er. She's got the rest of 'em 'ull down. 1944 Return to Attack (Army Board, N.Z.) 18/1 Using the slight undulations of the desert to get hull down and so present the smallest target, they manœuvred for position. 1948 C. Day Lewis Poems 1943–7 29 Alas, hull-down upon hope's ashen verge Hastens the vessel that our joined hands launched. 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 96 Hull down, a position for tanks and self-propelled guns where only the turret was visible, the rest being protected by a bank or fold in the ground. 1953 C. Day Lewis Ital. Visit iv. 51 A cloud vibrating In the wash of the hull~down sun. 1960 C. S. Lewis Stud. in Words iv. 105 But ten years later he and Cowley are leagues apart, each ‘hull down’ to the other. < as lemmas |
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