| 单词 | long four |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong four long four n. (a) (chiefly Nautical) a long gun or cannon which fires shot weighing four pounds (now historical); cf. long six n. (b) and long nine n. 1; (b) a type of long candle, four of which together weighed one pound (obsolete); cf. long six n. (a). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > candle(s) defined by price or weight puttock1691 makeweight1695 long four1798 pigtail1824 long lady1847 fourteens1883 1798 Evening Mail 2 Mar. 4/3 She mounts 6 18-pounder caronades and two long fours, and is said to be an excellent sea boat. 1807 W. H. Ireland Stultifera Navis li. 225 Or else the cotton which was dipping In stinking tallow, cook maids' dripping; And sold spruce moulds, short eights, long fours. 1841 A. S. McKenzie Life of Paul Jones I. ii. 29 The Providence mounted twelve long fours, and had a crew of seventy men. 1891 Belfast News-let. 21 Mar. 7/1 The candles purchased by Mr. Larmour were ‘long fours,’ and it was unusual for him to buy goods of that description. 1910 R. Kipling Rewards & Fairies 208 She must be armed into my Navy with ten—no, fourteen twelve-pounders and two long fours. 1977 S. Styles Mr. Fitton's Comm. ii. §2. 45 Firing down-wind, those long fours could throw around [sic] shot a mile. < as lemmas |
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