单词 | ice master |
释义 | ice mastern. 1. A naval officer or pilot who has special experience in navigating vessels in icy waterways. Now chiefly historical.Formerly (with capital initials): the title of a naval officer with these duties, ranking below Lieutenant (cf. master n.1 7). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > helmsman or pilot > skilled pilot or navigator > among ice-floes ice master1827 1827 London Lit. Gaz. 29 Sept. 649/2 They..put into Longhope, in the Orkneys, without having experienced any loss by death, and with only Mr. Craufurd, the ice-master, much indisposed, on the sick list. 1853 Navy List 167 Terror... Screw Discovery Ship... Ice Master..Thos. Blanky (act). 1883 American 6 173 The expedition..[had] two Norwegian ice-masters. 1915 E. K. Kane Adrift in Arctic Ice Pack xxiii. 380 After a while, our captain, now perhaps the best ice-master afloat, determined on boring. 1965 W. Bixby Track of Bear ii. 22 The captain and ice master ‘scunned’ or navigated the ship toward the ice. 1993 New Scientist 16 Oct. 45/2 I was walking along the dock at Ushuaia, in the Beagle Channel, with the two Swedish ice masters from the ship I was on. 2. A person responsible for maintaining the ice at a skating rink or similar location; = iceman n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > attendant iceman1844 ice master1880 icemaker1904 1880 Daily News 28 Jan. 2/5 The park bailiff and ice-master considered the ice on the Serpentine about 3½ inches thick. 1903 Womanhood Jan. 132/2 Mr. W. Nightingale, the clever ice-master at this great glaciarium. 1953 Atlantic Monthly 191 95 The ice rink, one of the best on the Continent, is kept in fine shape by Herr Baumann from Grindelwald, Switzerland's foremost ice-master. 1998 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 14 Feb. 54 The Ice Master at the M Wave speed skating rink,..has made the ice faster. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1827 |
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