英语词汇“nigger engine”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. A steam-driven capstan used on some riverboats; a steam engine used to drive such a capstan (also more fully nigger engine). Now rare.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment for moving ship over bar or shoal > [noun] > winch or capstan

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1867 J. A. Hosmer Trip to States by Yellowstone & Missouri 58 The boat..struck the bar; they then began to work with the spars and nigger, and at two o'clock we got off.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1526/2 Nigger (Steam-engine), a steam-engine employed in hoisting; especially on shipboard and on the Western and Southern rivers.

1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds 378 Then oaths, spars, ‘nigger-engine’ and all the other available machinery were set in operation.

1882 Harper's Mag. Jan. 175/2 One of the ‘nigger’ engines is suddenly called into service to tighten a two-inch rope, or wind up a discarded cable.

1942 R. A. Hereford Old Man River 114 The other end of the rope was secured to the capstan,..which was operated by a small engine called the ‘nigger’.

单词	nigger engine
释义	> as lemmas nigger engine a. A steam-driven capstan used on some riverboats; a steam engine used to drive such a capstan (also more fully nigger engine). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment for moving ship over bar or shoal > [noun] > winch or capstan capstanc1400 winch1623 nigger1867 1867 J. A. Hosmer Trip to States by Yellowstone & Missouri 58 The boat..struck the bar; they then began to work with the spars and nigger, and at two o'clock we got off. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1526/2 Nigger (Steam-engine), a steam-engine employed in hoisting; especially on shipboard and on the Western and Southern rivers. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds 378 Then oaths, spars, ‘nigger-engine’ and all the other available machinery were set in operation. 1882 Harper's Mag. Jan. 175/2 One of the ‘nigger’ engines is suddenly called into service to tighten a two-inch rope, or wind up a discarded cable. 1942 R. A. Hereford Old Man River 114 The other end of the rope was secured to the capstan,..which was operated by a small engine called the ‘nigger’. extracted from niggern.adj. < as lemmas
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