| 单词 | bellbuoy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbell-buoy bell-buoy n. a buoy with a bell. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > buoy > other types of buoy can-buoy1626 mast-buoy1675 nun buoy1703 breakwater1769 under-buoy1793 light buoy1822 bell-buoy1838 spar-buoy1860 gas buoy1865 whistling buoy1880 puppy1890 singing-buoy1894 gas float1895 1838 E. Flagg Far West in R. G. Thwaites Early Western Trav. (1908) XXVI. 52 The hated clang of the bell-boy [sic] was soon after heard..throughout the cabins. 1884 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xl. 315 The melancholy cadence of the bell-buoy. a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 60 A pale-faced, fat man huskily enveloped him with a raised, red fist, and the voice of a bell buoy. bell-buoy a. A floating object fastened in a particular place to point out the position of things under the water (as anchors, shoals, rocks), or the course which ships have to take; or to float a cable in a rocky anchorage to prevent its chafing against the rocks (= cable-buoy n. at cable n. Compounds 2, mooring buoy n. at mooring n.1 Compounds 1). bell-buoy, a buoy fitted with a bell, to ring with the agitation of the water, and so give warning of danger. See also can-buoy n., nun buoy n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > buoy buoy1466 1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 325 Kabeles, and an hawser, and ij. boyes. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 199/1 Boy of an ancre, boyee. 1584 R. Norman tr. C. Antoniszoon Safegard of Sailers f. 6 The markes of the southern Buie. 1584 R. Norman tr. C. Antoniszoon Safegard of Sailers f. 10 The Buy upon the Nes. 1600 R. Hakluyt tr. G. B. Ramusio in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 411 Marking..how our bwoy floated vpon the water. a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 4 The Flats..where buoys are placed, 'twixt which all ships are to sail. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 41 An Harbour..where a Boy and a Cord two Inches Diameter will be sufficient to a hold a Ship. 1802 R. Southey Inchcape Rock That bell on the Inchcape Rock; On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 23 The buoys which mark the entrance into the Maas. 1884 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xl. 315 The melancholy cadence of the bell-buoy. < as lemmas |
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