单词 | iceship |
释义 | > as lemmasiceship iceship n. a ship designed to sail in icy waters, esp. one constructed to resist ice pressure (in quot. 1825 apparently: a ghostly ship encrusted with ice). ΚΠ 1825 Maryland Gaz. & State Reg. 31 Mar. 2/2 On beautiful moonlight evenings, we could dimly distinguish the Ice Ship, steering in our wake, glittering in all the pride of awful pomp. 1829 Olio 2 406/1 Snow will be scarce as charity, Frost rare as poet's brains; On Norway's coast ice-ships must be, Or Britons freeze mild rains. 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. 247 Plants..transported [to Calcutta]..by one of the ice ships from North America. 1906 Aëronautical Jrnl. July 43/2 The apparatus of the expedition was assembled at Tromsoe, in Norway, where the iceship Frithjof was in readiness. 1959 New Scientist 2 Apr. 765/2 Where is the body both rich and powerful enough to build us the ice-ships that we and the Commonwealth so badly need? 2002 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 3 Feb. (Queensland ed.) 23/3 (caption) Piers Akerman. Aboard the iceship Sir Hubert Wilkins. < as lemmas |
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