单词 | oar-bench |
释义 | > as lemmasoar-bench oar-bench n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > seat in a boat > for rower(s) thoftc1000 thawt1589 bank1595 thwart1736 oar-bench1856 zygon1888 1856 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Aug. 426 The advice of the aged minister to a young brother..cannot be followed by chaining one's self to the sermon paper, like a galley slave to the oar-bench. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey ii The crew loosed the after-warps, clambered aboard, and took their seats on the oar-benches. 1999 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 26 Aug. 8 For those readers who have been taking a working holiday chained to an oar-bench in the lower deck of a slave galley, we [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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