| 单词 | purser's crab |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurser's crab purser's crab n. British Navy slang (now rare) a uniform boot. ΚΠ 1913 T. T. Jeans John Graham, Sub-Lieutenant R.N. 18 ‘Now for the purser's “crabs”!’ the Model gurgled, when I'd..produced a pair of service pattern boots. 1924 G. H. A. Willis Royal Navy as I saw It 83 Modern ships with wire hawsers instead of ropes, and iron decks and ladders, conduce to the wearing of shoes or ‘purser's crabs’. < as lemmas |
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