| 单词 | boat song |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboat song boat song n. a song sung by the crew of a boat; esp. one used to help maintain the rhythm of rowing or paddling. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > sailors' songs sea-song1659 yo-hope1724 jorram1774 barcarolle1779 tactic1779 boat song1806 Nancy Dawsona1827 stamp and go1830 shanty1856 fore-bitter1906 1806 Monthly Mag. Nov. 343/2 The mariners accompany their labours with metrical effusions, and the Polacca is simply the ‘boat song’. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 193 The..melancholy boat-song of the rowers, coming on the ear with softened and sweeter sound. 1883 Cent. Mag. Mar. 755/1 He picked on a banjo the air of a Canadian boat-song he had learned in Gaspé the summer before. 1908 Blackwood's Mag. May 648/2 The steersman..lifted up his voice and began to keen a boat song. 1989 P. van der Merwe Origins Pop. Style (1992) xxiii. 206 It is introduced as a ‘corn song’ adapted as a boat song, but the reverse is surely true. < as lemmas |
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