| 单词 | marine railway |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarine railway marine railway n. a slipway with rails or rollers to facilitate the launching of boats, their handling for repair, etc. ΚΠ 1824 in Charters & Laws Mass. Bay (1914) 319 For the purpose of making and supporting a marine railway in the town of Salem. 1846 Sci. Amer. 26 Sept. 3/1 An expensive apparatus, called the ‘Marine Railway’, constructed on the principle of the inclined plane, with a huge and complicated carriage to travel thereon, has been extensively used for taking vessels out of the water to repair. 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 10 Jan. 36/1 Many scows and small tugs were handled..and docked on the marine railway. 1969 E. W. Morse Fur Trade Canoe Routes ii. vi. 83 Its three old portages have now become marine railways, constructed to assist the heavy motor-boat traffic of this river. 1996 Canad. Geographic July 36/1 The..Kirkfield Lift Lock operates some 70 kilometres to the northwest [of the Peterborough Lift Lock]..and the Big Chute Marine Railway yet another 70 kilometres to the northwest. < as lemmas |
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