英语词汇“rudder-fan”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. Prefixed to nouns designating something that resembles or acts like a rudder, as rudder-fan, rudder-quill, rudder-tail, etc.

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1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. iv. i. 61 His [sc. a humming-bird's] Tail an inch and ¹/ ₂. In which there are ten black Rudder-Quills ¹/ ₄ of an inch broad.

1793 South Downs 27 See nought alas! her services avail; Her boyant pinion, nor the rudder tail.

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 163 The rudder-tail here described is that of the male bull-finch.

1860 Knickerbocker Dec. 562 The pectoral, caudal, and rudder fin, with their various rays, were blood-red, edged with white.

1930 J. Huxley Bird-watching & Bird Behaviour vi. 102 The transformation of their [sc. birds] originally long and awkward tail, like a kite's, into an efficient rudder-fan..came later.

1960 A. Pryce-Jones Amer. Imag. 11 This American fishtail is most readily seen in the shape of those great rudder fins, larger every year, which sprout from the sterns of Cadillacs.

2001 J. D. Houston Snow Mountain Passage ii. 136 He is like a great fish once marooned back there..with fins and undulating rudder tail suddenly useless.

单词	rudder-fan
释义	> as lemmas rudder-fan c. Prefixed to nouns designating something that resembles or acts like a rudder, as rudder-fan, rudder-quill, rudder-tail, etc. ΚΠ 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. iv. i. 61 His [sc. a humming-bird's] Tail an inch and ¹/ ₂. In which there are ten black Rudder-Quills ¹/ ₄ of an inch broad. 1793 South Downs 27 See nought alas! her services avail; Her boyant pinion, nor the rudder tail. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 163 The rudder-tail here described is that of the male bull-finch. 1860 Knickerbocker Dec. 562 The pectoral, caudal, and rudder fin, with their various rays, were blood-red, edged with white. 1930 J. Huxley Bird-watching & Bird Behaviour vi. 102 The transformation of their [sc. birds] originally long and awkward tail, like a kite's, into an efficient rudder-fan..came later. 1960 A. Pryce-Jones Amer. Imag. 11 This American fishtail is most readily seen in the shape of those great rudder fins, larger every year, which sprout from the sterns of Cadillacs. 2001 J. D. Houston Snow Mountain Passage ii. 136 He is like a great fish once marooned back there..with fins and undulating rudder tail suddenly useless. extracted from ruddern. < as lemmas
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