单词 | stowaway |
释义 | stowawayn. 1. A person who hides in a ship in order to escape payment of passage-money, to get to sea unobserved, or to escape by stealth from a country. Hence also, one who steals a passage by aeroplane. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun] > one who or that which conceals > person in hiding > on transport stowaway1850 1850 Morning Chron. 22 July 6/1 All the passengers were summoned on deck that their names might be read over, their tickets produced, and a search made in the steerage, and in every hole and corner of the ship, for ‘stow-aways’. 1855 Ann. Reg. 1854 ii. Chron. 194/2 He had been seized as a ‘stow-away’. 1885 American 11 78 Forty-seven stowaways were found in the hold of one vessel. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 439 A poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny. 1973 Times 8 Aug. 7/3 (heading) Stowaway takes wrong flight. 2. gen. Something stowed away. Also, a place where things may be stowed. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store store1487 store1520 reserving1530 staple1549 forestore1556 conserve1586 budget1597 magazine1615 stock1638 stowaway1913 dump1915 bank1918 stockpile1942 the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored aumbry1356 promptuary?a1425 repository1485 staple1523 magazine1583 reposement1592 repertory1593 rendezvous1608 reserve1612 conservatory1624 reconditory1633 dormerc1640 stowagea1641 depositum1646 repositary1650 magazine storehousea1654 deposit1719 reservoir1739 battery1748 depository1750 storage1775 depot1795 depositary1797 repertorium1797 rua1831 stowaway1913 1913 E. F. Benson Thorley Weir iii. 88 For all these weeks Charles had never touched the cupboard except to insert some further stowaway. 1915 W. J. Locke Jaffery xx Of all the stowaway places under my control..only one is locked. 1928 Daily Express 21 Mar. 5/3 The window~seat top lifts up, and this makes another good stowaway for toys. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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