单词 | wherryman |
释义 | wherrymann. A man employed on a wherry (sense 1 or 2). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor on barge or lighter keeler1322 lighterman1463 bargeman1465 keelman1516 wherryman1535 bark-man1588 pug1591 barger1602 western man1607 bargee1669 keel-bully1699 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > wherryman wherry-rower?1518 wherryman1535 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxvii. 28 All whirry men, and all maryners vpon the see. 1542 in R. G. Marsden Sel. Pleas Court Admiralty (1894) I. 116 John Peers..of the parishe of Sainte Olyff in the Burge of Sowthwerke wherryman. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 6th Serm. sig. Yii I dare saye is neuer a whirriman at Westminster brydge but he can answere to thys. 1593 F. Bacon Let. to Earl of Essex 10 Nov. As he that is an excellent wherryman, who you know looketh towards the bridge when he pulleth towards Westminster. 1661 in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1911) 2nd Ser. 130 Thomas Tracey of Great Yarmouth..wherryman. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 145 The society of watermen and wherrymen. 1905 A. I. Shand Days of Past ii. 19 They had run the old wherrymen and scullers off the Thames. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1535 |
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