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单词 line abreast
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line abreast
2. Nautical. With reference to the disposition of a squadron or other group of ships: with the vessels parallel to one another (usually evenly spaced) in a line at right angles to the direction of travel. Frequently in line abreast. Also in extended use (chiefly Military).
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1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe sig. B3 Sixe hundreth reasonable barkes and vesselles of good burden..it hath giuen shelter to at once in her harbour, and most of them riding abrest before the Key betwixt the Bridge and the Southgate.
1670 S. Clarke True & Faithful Acct. Four Chiefest Plantations Eng. in Amer. 28 Its a safe and pleasant Harbour within, having but one secure entrance, and that no broader than for three Ships to enter abreast.
1707 London Gaz. No. 4380/2 The Commadore made a Signal for the Line a-breast.
1763 J. Entick Gen. Hist. Late War I. i. 450 They might have come up as near the enemy, as if they had bore in a line of battle abreast.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. iv. 144 The English, having the wind, came down a-breast.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 350 The California had got under weigh at the same moment; and we sailed down the narrow bay abreast.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. i. 18 A Column means any number of ships in a distinct group, whether in line ahead, abreast, or otherwise.
1943 C. Graves Seven Pilots 133 Kit..ordered his section to fly line abreast. Sure enough, one Spitfire was travelling very low with another wheeling behind and above him.
1991 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 111 197/2 The phrase epi keras..indicates the movement of a group of ships in line ahead from a starting formation of line abreast.
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