单词 | bottle track |
释义 | > as lemmasbottle track bottle track n. Nautical historical the track taken by a bottle dropped into the water from a ship for the purpose of charting ocean currents; cf. bottle chart n.Bottle tracks were plotted using information enclosed in the bottle about the ship's position at the time of release, together with the time and place of retrieval. See also drift-bottle n. at drift n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1842 Naut. Mag. & Naval Chron. No. 9. 616 We place the foregoing letter on record..in order to preserve it for future reference in a general collection of the bottle tracks, in course of preparation for this journal. 1894 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 26 284 Examination of the bottle tracks on the charts shows a general direction from west to east. 2014 R. G. Barry & E. A. Hall-McKim Essent. Earth's Climate Syst. viii. 130 Between 1808 and 1852 hundreds of bottle tracks were recorded. < as lemmas |
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