| 单词 | to bruise the water |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bruise the water Nautical. to bruise the water and variants: (esp. of a boat with bluff (bluff adj. 1a) bows) to hit the water with force when travelling forward so that progress is slow or difficult. Cf. bruisewater n. at Compounds. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > pitch and roll travaila1393 totterc1400 walterc1400 labour1587 senda1625 to bruise the water1836 stagger1840 pant1869 to walk turkey1888 pound1903 slam1958 1836 United Service Jrnl. Sept. 21 We have seen ships cracking on in chase, dragging the lee-guns, chains, and anchor-flukes through all, and bruising the water like a fury, as if heeling almost to her beam-ends and dashing the foam about constituted velocity. 1880 Daily Tel. 7 Sept. While, rail under, she is bruising her water like a barge. 1883 J. G. Winton Mod. Steam Pract. 777 If the buttock line has a bold appearance, and is delineated quite full, then he knows such a vessel is not calculated for speed, but, bruising the waves, will be obstructed in its passage through them. 1970 E. J. Marsh Inshore Craft Great Brit. I. iv. 136 A poor [Yorkshire] sailing coble was a ‘bruzwater’, only bruising the water, not slipping through it. < as lemmas |
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