| 单词 | bully boat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbully boat 2. U.S. Designating a particularly impressive boat, esp. one that is quicker or better equipped than others of the same type or plying the same waters. Chiefly in bully boat. Cf. first rate adj. 1.After the mid 19th cent. only in somewhat archaic use or (now typically) in occasional examples which are indistinguishable from sense A. 3. ΚΠ 1839 H. Lane Wandering Boy 17 At Poughkeepsie, I got on board of a new sloop, a bully sailor, called the Ann Maria, and left her as soon as she struck the wharf at New-York. 1841 H. J. Mercier & W. Gallop Life in Man-of-War 218 The launch of the United States Ship Dale, took this opportunity of trying her speed with the bully boat of the Constitution. 1847 W. T. Porter Quarter Race Kentucky 126 Our ‘bully’ boat sped away like a bird. 1921 R. R. Terry Shanty Bk. 45 O the bully boat is coming, Down the Mississippi floating. 1999 P. Caputo Voyage (2000) 101 It's a bully boat, we've got plenty of food aboard, and so we'll make the best of it. < as lemmas |
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