单词 | saddle-bag |
释义 | saddle-bagv. Originally and chiefly U.S. intransitive. Of a boat, raft, etc.: to catch on an obstruction in such a way as to be swung around by the current and come to rest alongside it. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > suffer shipwreck [verb (intransitive)] > be caught by tree, stump, etc. snag1866 saddle-bag1878 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > lumber [verb (intransitive)] > of floating logs saddle-bag1901 1878 Wellsboro (Pa.) Agitator 23 July The massive rock on which many a raft has saddlebagged and broken. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xiii. 106 They lost their steering-oar..and saddle-baggsed on the wreck. 1898 Derrick's Handbk. Petroleum 32 A boat..laden with 1,500 bbls. of oil, ‘saddle-bagged’ on pier of Oil Creek bridge. Boat and contents a total loss. 1901 W. F. Fox in 6th Ann. Rep. N.Y. State Forest, Fish & Game Comm. 254 Sometimes the long, floating mass [sc. a lumber raft] would swing in the wind and current so that it would ‘saddle-bag’ on the head of the bar below the dam. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 45 Saddlebag, as applied to a boom, to catch on an obstruction and double round it. 1945 F. J. Fugina Lore & Lure Upper Mississippi River 65 The raft was caught in a cross-current and saddle-bagged (piled up) on the towhead. 1990 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 9 Oct. Another method they [sc. pirates] used was to connect two small boats with rope on either side of the ship's path. When the ship ran into the rope the boats were dragged up and ‘saddle-bagged’ on the sides. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1878 |
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