| 单词 | quarter boat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter boat quarter boat n. (a) a small boat hung on davits at a ship's quarter; (b) U.S. a boat containing living quarters for river workmen. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > houseboat > type of hulk1671 Tanka boat1839 shanty-boat1880 quarter boat1929 1805 E. Berry 13 Oct. in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. 118 (note) I ordered the weather quarter-boat to be cut away. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast vi. 13 The watch on deck were lowering away the quarter-boat. 1929 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Oct. 1/3 The President and his immediate party left Cincinnati..aboard the Greenbrier..and three other light craft—quarter boats, they are called—for the remaining members of the party. 1962 A. Davison In Wake of Gemini 228 A quarterboat is an operational center for the maintenance and repair department of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi River Commission. 2002 D. W. Shaw Sea shall embrace Them (2003) x. 110 He watched Gourlay set to launching the starboard quarter boat. < as lemmas |
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