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单词 wherryman
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wherrymann.

Brit. /ˈwɛrɪmən/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɛrimən/
Forms: Plural wherrymen. Forms: see wherry n.1; also 1500s whirriman, 1500s–1600s wherriman.
Etymology: < wherry n.1 + man n.1 15b.
A man employed on a wherry (sense 1 or 2).
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor on barge or lighter
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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.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) Index 178. 1893 P. H. Emerson (title) On English lagoons, being an account of the voyage of two amateur wherrymen on the Norfolk and Suffolk rivers and Broads.1897 Daily News 14 Dec. 5/3 Wherrymen and anglers report the destruction of large numbers of coarse fish in the lower reaches of the Norfolk tidal rivers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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