| 单词 | boat hire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboat hire boat hire n. [compare Middle Dutch boothure , apparently rare (Dutch boothuur (19th cent.)), Middle Low German bōthǖre ; compare also earlier ship-hire n. at ship n.1 Compounds 3a] ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > [noun] > for ship or boat boat hire1423 fraughtc1440 freight1463 tonnage1512 1423 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 175 (MED) Item, for bothyr..from Westmester to london, viij d. 1468 in Transcript Churchwardens' Accts. Tilney All Saints, Norfolk (1922) 35 (MED) Pro cariagio le torches & bothyre, ij d. 1580 A. Saker Narbonus i. 93 My young Maister had some money lose in his pocket to pay his Boate hire. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xv. 188 Somewhat else Boat-hire to pay. 1788 Calcutta Chron. 3 Jan. Their..Boat..will deliver the goods ordered..at no charge whatever..but the proportion of boat hire. 1828 C. D'Oyly Tom Raw, Griffin 197 Some Qui-hi captain..undertakes the job,—his boat-hire to escape. 1903 A. C. P. Haggard Sporting Yarns 225 He naturally thought 3s. an hour pretty stiff boat hire. 2010 C. Pitts & D. McCrohan Shanghai (Lonely Planet) 113/2 There's a great central lake with boat hire. < as lemmas |
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