英语词汇“to feather an oar”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. to feather an oar: to turn it as it leaves the water at the end of a stroke, so that it may pass through the air edgeways.

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society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [verb (intransitive)] > row > make stroke with oar > feather oar

to feather an oara1740

a1740 [implied in: Tickell in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) The feathering oar returns the gleam. (at feathering adj. b)].

1774 C. Dibdin Waterman in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1062 He feather'd his oars with..skill.

1847 J. Wilson Christopher North I. 248 We to-day shall feather an oar.

absolute.1825 L. Hunt tr. F. Redi Bacchus in Tuscany 857 Boaters, who know how to feather, Never get tired.1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. xiii. 243 This wind will make it very rough..Mind you feather high.

单词	to feather an oar
释义	> as lemmas to feather an oar a. to feather an oar: to turn it as it leaves the water at the end of a stroke, so that it may pass through the air edgeways. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [verb (intransitive)] > row > make stroke with oar > feather oar to feather an oara1740 a1740 [implied in: Tickell in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) The feathering oar returns the gleam. (at feathering adj. b)]. 1774 C. Dibdin Waterman in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1062 He feather'd his oars with..skill. 1847 J. Wilson Christopher North I. 248 We to-day shall feather an oar. absolute.1825 L. Hunt tr. F. Redi Bacchus in Tuscany 857 Boaters, who know how to feather, Never get tired.1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. xiii. 243 This wind will make it very rough..Mind you feather high. extracted from featherv. < as lemmas
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