单词 | bridge of boats |
释义 | > as lemmasbridge of boats (also ships, barrels, floats, etc.) P1. bridge of boats (also ships, barrels, floats, etc.): (esp. in military contexts) a temporary floating bridge forming or carrying a road across a river, stream, or other body of water, which is supported by a number of boats, barrels, floats, etc., moored or tethered side by side; a pontoon bridge. [Compare classical Latin navalis pons, post-classical Latin pons navalis (9th cent.), pons navium (12th cent.).] ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > floating bridge bridge of boatsa1387 pontoon1590 boat bridge1598 ship-bridge1663 flying bridge1675 float-bridge1692 floating bridge1706 raft bridge1733 pontoon bridge1757 raft1761 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 55 Þere Xerxes þe kyng made ouer a brigge of schippes [L. pontem fecit de navibus]. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxii. He, there, made a bridge of boates, and brought his ordinaunce so nere the toune, that..it semed not long able to resist. 1747 W. Harris New Hist. William-Henry Prince of Orange & Nassau (Dublin ed.) III. 153 Ordering one Party to go over the Bridge, a Second to ford the River.., and a Third to be carried over by a Bridge of Floats and Pontoons. 1811 Duke of Wellington Let. 18 Jan. in Dispatches (1838) VII. 151 There will be no difficulty in laying a bridge of boats. 1911 H. G. Tyrrell Hist. of Bridge Engin. vi. 109 The bridge of boats over the Danube at Budapest which existed previous to 1837, was removed in the winter seasons because of danger from ice. 2008 J. White Abyssinian Proof i. 13 They flung a bridge of barrels across the Golden Horn and began to mine the city walls. < as lemmas |
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