| 单词 | boat bridge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboat bridge boat bridge n. a bridge consisting of a number of boats tied together. [Compare Middle French pont a bapteau (1575), French pont de bateaux (1680). Compare also ship-bridge n. at ship n.1 Compounds 3a.] ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > floating bridge bridge of boatsa1387 pontoon1590 boat bridge1598 ship-bridge1663 flying bridge1675 float-bridge1692 floating bridge1706 raft bridge1733 pontoon bridge1757 raft1761 1598 tr. True Newes Victorie against Turkes 6 Hee presently sent about midnight, a hundred chosen men.., with certaine wagons, laden with Boate-bridges, Skaling-ladders, and instruments of fire-workes. 1659 Mercurius Politicus No. 588. 752 The Confederate Forces after they had passed the Eyder upon a Boat Bridge erected about Rensburg..marched by way of Crempen. 1794 J. B. S. Morritt Let. 22 May (1914) ii. 29 The Danube..which we crossed on one of the ponts volants or boat bridges you have heard me mention as on the Rhine. 1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 60/1 The wide, rapid river, the long boat-bridge..the river-side villages, and the winding Rhine flashing along for miles and miles. 1959 E. Pound Thrones xcvi. 9 By the boat-bridge over Euphrates. 2010 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 22 Sept. b6 (caption) Commuters walk across a floating boat bridge on the Buriganga River in Dhaka on Tuesday. < as lemmas |
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