单词 | man-hauling |
释义 | man-haulingn. The action or process of dragging a load by manpower, without mechanical or animal assistance.Frequently used in the context of polar expeditions. ΚΠ 1904 J. F. Maurice Diary Sir John Moore I. ii. 63 In our day field artillery are not practiced, as they ought to be, in carrying out, with the help of infantry man-hauling, such operations. 1912 L. E. G. Oates Jrnl. 18 Jan. in S. Limb & P. Cordingley Captain Oates (1995) x. 196 The gear they left was in excellent order and they seem to have had a comfortable trip with their dog teams very different from our wretched man-hauling. 1963 A. J. Heine in Symp. Antarctic Logistics 1962 v. 596 The ration scale for the man-hauling parties was based in part on available Antarctic trail rations, but mainly on Heine's trans-alpine experience in New Zealand. 1987 Canad. Geographic Oct. 84/2 They were..faced with ‘getting up a shallow, rocky river, virtually a continuous rapid, for 45 miles to the pass, climbing at an average of 22 feet to the mile..a succession of lining, poling and sometimes plain manhauling’. 2013 C. M. Giannantonio & A. E. Hurley-Hanson Extreme Leadership i. 25 Man-hauling was a strong tradition in nineteenth-century British polar exploration. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1904 |
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