单词 | boatbuilding |
释义 | boatbuildingn. The occupation or industry of building boats. Cf. shipbuilding n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding ship-craft1398 shipman-craft1418 naupegy1570 mouldingc1575 newbuilding1588 navarchy1648 shipbuilding1717 boatbuilding1758 1758 in Serm. Hugh Latimer I. x. 189 Our Author means, that men had not then proceeded so far in the art of Boat-building as to have produced that noble and grand vehicle we call the Ship. 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 85 Rock Elm..is extensively used for boat-building. 1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. i. v. 64 Boat-building has not hitherto required any great division of labour. 1910 Mrs. H. M. Tirard Bk. of Dead i. 18 All the trades are also represented, shoe-making, boat-building, pottery-making [etc.]. 1986 F. Underwood & G. Warr in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) ii. iv. 183 For external work, and boatbuilding in particular, special resin-type glues are used. 2010 Guardian 14 Aug. (Work section) 2/3 He went to college to learn boatbuilding and boatyard management. Compounds General attributive, as boatbuilding business, boatbuilding yard, etc. ΚΠ 1780 in Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 391 It is absolutely necessary that the ‘Boat-building business’ be pushed. 1835 Hazard's Reg. Pennsylvania 29 Aug. 135/2 From this, any person can judge of the importance of the boat building business in this county. 1890 Times 13 Jan. 13/1 Ship and boat building yards, docks, rope works, and 30 other minor industries. 1923 J. Hornell Indian Boat Designs 149 Typical of their [sc. the Kanarese's] lack of boat-building skill are the coffin-shaped backwater cargo carriers of Mangalore. 1970 Canad. Geogr. Mag. Feb. 51/1 Mr. John A. Cockburn has retired and his family's boatbuilding workshop has been demolished. 2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Sept. 83/2 (advt.) The port is also home to the largest boat-building yards in the UAE. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1758 |
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