单词 | to blow the grampus |
释义 | > as lemmasto blow the grampus b. Nautical. to blow the grampus (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > practice the calling of a sailor [verb (intransitive)] > soak skulking sailor to blow the grampus1829 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. iv. 124 The buckets of water which were..poured over me by the midshipmen, under the facetious appellation of ‘blowing the grampus’,..could [not] rouse my dormant energies. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 346 Blowing the grampus, sluicing a person with water, especially practised on him who skulks or sleeps on his watch. < as lemmas |
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