| 单词 | boat-steerer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboat-steerer boat-steerer n. Whaling a member of the crew of a whaling boat, who steers the boat, and in the South Sea fishery, harpoons the whale. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > helmsman or pilot > one who steers whaling boat boat-steerer1742 1742 Coll. Statutes Admiralty 448 That no Harpooneer, Line-Manager, Boat-Steerer, or Seaman, who shall be in or belong to any Ship or Vessel, in the Greenland Fishery Trade, shall be impressed from the said Service. 1753 J. Bond in Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 430 The harpooneer, as they call him, sits rowing in the head of the boat, and observes certain silent signals, which the boat-steerer gives him, to inform him, that he is near enough to strike the whale. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxvii. 131 His boat-steerer or harpooner. 1905 W. Baucke Where White Man Treads 75 An old-time bay whaling station consisted..of at least two boats, with their crew of six men each. The headsman, or mate, four ordinary oarsmen, and the harpooner, or ‘boat-steerer’, who pulled the bow-oar, and drove in the harpoon. 2000 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 96/3 When he and his boat crew did finally approach a whale, it was Chase, not his boatsteerer, Benjamin Lawrence, who held the harpoon. < as lemmas |
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