单词 | longship |
释义 | longshipn. 1. Chiefly historical. In early use: a warship, esp. a galley. In later use spec.: a long, narrow, double-ended ship with a shallow draught, propelled by oars and also (in later designs) having a single mast with a square sail, used by the Vikings and other northern European peoples during the medieval period for war, commerce, etc.In early use frequently translating Latin navis longa.Sometimes (esp. in form long ship) showing a more general sense of long, esp. in contrast with round adj. 8c.In quot. eOE probably simply describing an exceptionally long vessel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > long ship chiulea800 longshipeOE keel1605 cyul1610 viking ship1847 drake1862 dragon boat1895 longboat1928 eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 896 Þa het Ælfred cyng timbran lang scipu [OE Tiber. B.i lange scipu] ongen ða æscas. Þa wæron fulneah tu swa lange swa þa oðru. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 395 He gadrede al þe grete strengþe of þe ȝong men of Grees, and ordeyned hym nyne longe schippes [L. longas naves]. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxxii. f. xxxii/2 Tydinges came to hym of the arryuynge of .iii. longe Shyppes full of Armed men at the Ile of Tenet. c1560 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. v. xii. 189 Thir legatis enterit in ane lang schip. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xviii. xiii. 679 Eusebius..landeth him at Eleusis, Celeus his citty out of a long ship. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 450 Hither the Spanish Ships had withdrawn themselves, excepting onely the Galeoons, and Long Ships. 1746 G. Costard Let. to M. Folkes 28 Sesostris, was the first Person that made Use of long Ships, according to the Egyptians own Account. 1770 T. Percy tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. I. x. 258 A long ship [Fr. long navire] which the chronicles mention with admiration, under the name of the Dragon. King Olave Tryggueson had one of the same kind, named the Long Serpent. 1799 Naval Chron. 2 182 Built after the model of long Ships, or Men of War. 1886 J. S. Corbett Fall of Asgard I. 268 A large vessel shot out from behind the point. It was a long-ship of twenty benches. 1906 H. W. Smyth Mast & Sail v. 113 The Shetland ‘sexern’..is a survival of the model of the old Norse long-ship. 1950 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Antiquaries Ireland 80 105 Each house being able to accommodate the crew of a longship, about 75 men. 2004 C. Connelly Attention All Shipping (2005) 36 The North Sea also provided passage for the invaders.., most notably the Vikings, who would paddle enthusiastically across it in their longships. 2. British Navy slang. In form long ship. A ship on which there is a long interval between drinks; a ship lacking in hospitality. Also in extended use. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > ship or party with long intervals between drinks longship1906 1906 Nineteenth Cent. & After Aug. 219 There is one point on which we cannot agree with your Majesty, and that is as to H.M.S. —— being a long ship. 1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 110 Long ship, a ship, or party, in which there is a long interval between..drinks. 2002 D. Reeman Twelve Seconds to Live (2003) xiii. 243 ‘Captain Chavasse runs a long ship, what?’ Masters opened the cupboard. ‘Time for a drink, sir?’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.eOE |
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