单词 | lestercock |
释义 | lestercockn. dialect. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 34 Vpon the North coast, where want of good harbours denieth safe roade to the fisher-boats, they haue a deuice of two sticks filled with corks, and crossed flatlong, out of whose midst there riseth a thred, and at the same hangeth a saile; to this engine, termed a Lestercock, they tie one end of their Boulter. 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall Lestercock, a toy-boat sent out before the wind by fishermen in rough weather with a string of hooks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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