单词 | well-boat |
释义 | well-boatn. 1. A fishing boat provided with a well or tank for the storage and transport of live fish. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > vessels which store, freeze, or transport fish well-boat1614 fish-pool1718 sack ship1732 well smack?1758 carrier1825 sale-boat1840 ice boat1846 plunger1860 runner1881 pound-boat1884 run boat1884 fish-carrier1886 smacka1891 shacker1902 Klondiker1926 factory trawler1928 1614 T. Gentleman Englands Way to win Wealth 19 And these be Pinks and Wel-boats of the burthen of fourty Tunnes. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxx. 121 Others..get their living by selling fish alive, which to that purpose they keep in great well-boats. 1718 R. Steele & J. Gillmore Acct. Fish-pool 53 The miserable and painful Way, in which Fish, for a much longer Time, is convey'd in Well-boats, must have suitable unhealthy Effects. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 301 They [sc. carp] are there a great article of commerce, and sent in well-boats to Sweden and Russia. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xv. 438 Fish wasting in Well-boats at Gravesend. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 211 Severn Fisheries Board..Model of Trunk or Well Boat. 1994 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 27 Aug. 24 Currie envisages well boats—small coastal craft with open holds which are presently used to transport smolts—carrying mature live fish from the offshore cages to centralised processing plants. 2011 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 11 Aug. c8 Fish farmers pump salmon from floating sea cages aboard well-boats..to remove the sea lice. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > ship transporting troops or stores > landing craft well-boat1690 horse-boat1907 tank landing lighter1917 landing craft1940 Siebel ferry1942 tank landing ship1942 landing ship1943 storm boat1945 1690 tr. Copy Let. Gentleman in Dort 14 If your present Undertaking, with your Squadron under Capt. Bombo, with his Well-boats and Bomb Vessels, shoul [sic] end in an empty Burst, you will forfeit for ever your Reputation in Policy, and Conduct. 1693 in MSS House of Lords (1900) (modernized text) I. 187 An able seaman to take charge of the well-boats at Portsmouth and the stores to be put on board them. 1759 T. M. Molyneux Conjunct Exped. i. vi. 82 Several of the Well-boats sticking, all that were in them were either killed or wounded, before they could get to shore. 1798 J. Bruce Rep. Arrangem. Internal Def. these Kingdoms 69 The frigates and well-boats were much disabled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1614 |
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