单词 | speronara |
释义 | speronaran. A large rowing and sailing boat used in southern Italy and Malta. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > vessels propelled by oars and sails > Mediterranean felucca1615 speronara1783 α. β. 1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) IV. xcii We went on board a speronare.1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. ii. 59 Let's get on board one of the speronares which come with fruit from Sicily.1887 A. C. Gunter Mr. Barnes i. 6 A score or so of feluccas and speronares from Sardinia and Sicily.γ. 1799 Ld. Nelson Let. 22 May in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. p. clxxxiii Neither of the two Sparanaroes..having joined, I cannot send this for Palermo.1823 J. J. Blunt Vestiges Anc. Manners Italy ii. 33 A friend of mine who..had hired a sparonara to convey them from Naples to Rome.1828 R. Duppa Trav. Italy 202 Here we quitted Sicily, and took a Sparanaro to visit Stromboli.1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 175 I had a pleasant voyage in my Maltese Speronara (which are excellent boats, and the boatmen very skilful). 1838 H. G. Knight Normans in Sicily 135 The harbour only contains a few fishing-boats and speronaras. 1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) lxxi. 378 The boat was what is called a speronaro; an open boat worked with oars, but with a lateen sail at the same time when the breeze served. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1783 |
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