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单词 roomward
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roomwardadv.

Forms: 1500s–1600s roomeward.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: room adv., room adj., -ward suffix.
Etymology: < either room adv. or room adj. + -ward suffix. Compare earlier room adv. 3.
Nautical. Obsolete.
= room adv. 3.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > [adverb] > with wind abaft the beam
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1589 R. Baker in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 136 Aloofe would some with one, and roome ward would the rest: But with the tallest ship we gone, whom we thinke to be best.
1601 W. Walker tr. J. C. van Neck Jrnl. Voy. Eight Shippes of Amsterdam f. 13 We discharged a peece to warne the other ships thereof, & then wended and put roome-ward.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bouter au vent, to beare roomeward; or, to fill the sayles with wind.
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) ii. iii. 214 My Pilot was constrained to goe Roome-ward to Sea.
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) ii. iii. 226 This Fleet..put roome-ward to Sea, as soone as they had descried us.
1658 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. Paruta Hist. Venice ii. ii. 140 Having fallen much Roomeward at the beginning of the fight,..they kept aloof from the great gallie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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