| 单词 | mark twain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmark twain ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > sounding-line or -rod > two fathom mark on twain1799 1799 J. W. Russell in R. D. Paine Romance Old Time Shipmaster (1907) iii. 43 The man in the chains suddenly sung out ‘quarter less twain’, and we instantly struck. 1863 ‘M. Twain’ in A. B. Paine Mark Twain (1912) I. xl. 221 I want to sign my articles..‘Mark Twain’. It is an old river term, a leads-man's call, signifying two fathoms—twelve feet. 1947 E. M. Mack Mark Twain in Nevada xv. 228 How many times when he was on the River had he heard the leadsman..call out, ‘By the mark, twain!’ < as lemmas |
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