| 单词 | bumping race |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbumping race bumping race n. Rowing (chiefly at Oxford and Cambridge Universities) a race in which boats start at fixed intervals, the starting places being determined by ‘bumps’ achieved in the previous race (see bump n.2 6a). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > types of rowing race torpid1838 bumping race1842 row-over1866 sculls1878 May1879 Lents1886 fours1891 getting-on race1892 row-off1893 re-row1901 tub-race1903 bumper1906 bump1923 bumps race1927 head race1953 1842 Bell's Life in London 27 Mar. A ‘bumping race’, over the usual racing distance. 1908 Brown Alumni Monthly Oct. 51/2 The torpid races are also ‘bumping races’. 2015 Oxf. Times 21 May 100/3 Oxford colleges went in different directions ahead of next week's Summer Eights bumping races. < as lemmas |
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