| 单词 | widow's man |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswidow's man widow's man n. †(a) a man who woos or attracts widows (obsolete); (b) Nautical a fictitious seaman whose name is included in the list of a ship's crew, and whose pay is set apart for widows' pensions (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > fitness for marriage > [noun] > marriageable person > man desirable or ideal as husband > to widows widow's man1749 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > crew > member of crew > fictitious widow's man1749 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. vi. 189 As to Square, who was..what is called a jolly Fellow, or a Widow's Man, he easily reconciled his Choice to the eternal Fitness of Things. View more context for this quotation 1757 Regulations & Instr. relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea (Royal Navy) (ed. 9) 220 Every Commander is to enter and bear upon the Books of the Ship or Vessel he commands..so many fictitious Names of Men, under the Appellation of Widows Men. 1790 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 2 Oct. Fictitious Seamen called Widow's Men. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Widows' men, imaginary sailors, formerly borne on the books as A. B.'s for wages in every ship in commission; they ceased with the consolidated pay at the close of the war. 2006 R. Adkins & L. Adkins War for All Oceans (2008) ii. 33 Every naval ship's muster book carried a number of ‘widow's men’, usually in the proportion of two for every hundred men in the crew. < as lemmas |
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