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单词 lestercock
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lestercockn.

/ˈlɛstəkɒk/
Etymology: < Old Cornish lester a ship, Breton lestr, Irish leastar small boat + cock n.4
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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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