| 单词 | shell-back |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshell-back shell-back n. (a) jocular a sailor, esp. a hardened or experienced one; also transferred; (b) a marine turtle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > turtles or sea-tortoises sea-tortoise1601 soldier1608 turtle1657 thalassian1852 shell-back1853 turkle1861 fish1898 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > old or experienced sailor hale bowline1627 sea-dog1823 stationer1826 old salt1828 salt1840 shell-back1853 sea-daddy1899 1853 J. T. Downey Filings from Old Saw (1956) vi. 30 Both the nerve of 14 strong armed shell-backs, and the occasional disbursement of an extra tot of whiskey, kept her going. 1883 W. C. Russell Jack's Courtship i It takes a sailor a long time to..get quit of the bold sheer that earns him the name of shell-back. 1891–4 R. L. Stevenson in G. Balfour Life R. L. Stevenson (1911) 249 The arrival of strange old shell-back guests out of every quarter of the island world. 1905 A. I. Shand Days of Past iii. 38 The shellbacks from the Caribbean Sea or Ascension floating in the tanks. 1943 A. Ransome Picts & Martyrs xi. 103 He felt as if he was going to sit for an examination and he wanted to make no mistakes with those two old shellbacks, Nancy and Peggy, as examiners. 1959 J. Cary Captive & Free 207 The old hulk was full of crabs—there doesn't seem to be anything else in the sub-editor's room. Old shellbacks that have been chewing on Fowler for forty years. 1963 Listener 21 Feb. 350/3 I have no doubt a lot of right-wing shell-backs are now conceding, with blimpish magnanimity, that there's really something to be said for these young fellows after all. 1974 Times 9 Dec. 13/3 In both division lobbies right-wingers rubbed shoulders with left-wingers, shellbacks with parliamentary apprentices. < as lemmas |
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