| 单词 | outrigger skiff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoutrigger skiff C2. Used with the names of kinds of boat with the sense ‘fitted with an outrigger or outriggers (in various senses)’, as outrigger canoe, outrigger skiff, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > light or racing > fitted with outriggers outrigger1845 outrigger skiff1854 rigger1881 1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) vi. 53 The former occupied his outrigger skiff. 1862 Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 293 The famous six-oar outrigger boat of Harvard College. 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber ii. i. 238 The grandfathers of the blacks of Hinchinbrook Island..have been popularly credited with the art of making out-rigger canoes. 1974 ‘M. Allen’ Super Tour (1975) ix. 322 The [Fijian] natives..rode in outrigger canoes. 2002 National Geographic July 69 (caption) Coral reefs of the Calamian islands in Palawan sustain fishermen in outrigger bancas. < as lemmas |
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