| 单词 | rock nosing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrock nosing rock nosing n. now historical a method of whaling (esp. during poor weather conditions) in which a ship lies at anchor in a protective harbour or close to the shore, while smaller boats are sent out to search for whales and guide them to the ship; cf. rocknoser n. at Compounds 2b. ΚΠ 1850 R. A. Goodsir Arctic Voy. Baffin's Bay & Lancaster Sound v. 137 (heading) ‘Rock nosing’. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 527/1 Only the larger individuals, however,..come close down along the land of the west side. These the ships send their boats out to intercept, and this forms the inshore fishing or ‘rock-nosing’. 2002 S. D. Grant Arctic Justice i. 14 A few whalers continued to fish off the North Baffin coast, nearly all from Peterhead or Dundee, Scotland. The technique they employed was called ‘rock-nosing’. < as lemmas |
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