| 单词 | stern-gallery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstern-gallery d. Nautical. A balcony built outside the body of a ship, at the stern ( stern-gallery), or at the quarters ( quarter-gallery). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > balcony or gallery at stern or quarter gallery1627 balcony1666 quarter-gallery1740 stern-gallery1842 stern-walk1867 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 11 The Brackets are little carued knees to support the Galleries. 1679 London Gaz. No. 1393/1 During which time, our Quarter took fire, and burnt the Gallery, but we happily quencht it. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 313 As to her Quarter, the Carpenters made her a neat little Gallery on either Side. 1797 Ld. Nelson in A. Duncan Life (1806) 41 A soldier..having broken the upper quarter-gallery window, I jumped in. 1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 37 From her poop and galleries, the enemy sorely annoyed..the British. 1872 Earl of Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley South Sea Bubbles i. 14 They lay under the stern gallery of the frigate. stern-gallery stern-gallery n. (see gallery n. 2d). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > balcony or gallery at stern or quarter gallery1627 balcony1666 quarter-gallery1740 stern-gallery1842 stern-walk1867 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. iii. 82 All this I see, as I sit in the little stern-gallery. < as lemmas |
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