| 单词 | woman's boat |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswoman's boat woman's boat n. = women's boat n. at Compounds 5. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > skin kayak1767 women's boat1767 umiak1769 woman's boat1769 woman boat1831 bidarka1834 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Canoe In their language, the canoe is called kaiak, or man's boat, to distinguish it from Umiak, the woman's boat. 1871 I. I. Hayes Land of Desolation (1872) v. 49 A man will never pull an oar in a woman's boat... He has his own small boat, the handling of which requires skill, while the woman's boat requires none. 1990 L. Millman Last Places (2000) xi. 182 Lieutenant Gustav Holm of the Danish Navy rounded Cape Farewell in an umiaq, a woman's boat, and headed northeast into unknown regions. < as lemmas |
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