单词 | submarine pen |
释义 | > as lemmassubmarine pen submarine pen n. [compare German U-Boot-Bunker, lit. ‘submarine bunker’ (1942 or earlier)] a covered dock to shelter submarines, esp. from air attack; cf. pen n.2 5. ΚΠ 1941 Times 23 Dec. 2/3 The important submarine pens at Brest were also damaged during the attack. 1966 S. Hess America's Polit. Dynasties 500 Young Joe Kennedy had been killed while performing a daring mission designed to destroy enemy submarine pens on the Belgian coast. 2001 Navy News Sept. (Suppl.) 4/2 If..the Treasury had accepted the idea of excavating submarine pens..Malta would have been a secure base. < as lemmas |
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