单词 | by water |
释义 | > as lemmasby water c. by water: by ship, boat, or other watercraft as a means of travel or transport. Cf. by sea at sea n. 12b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [phrase] by waterOE by sea1487 by (be) seaboard1535 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1016 Þa gewende se here sona to Lundenne, & þa buruh utan ymbesæton, & hyre stearclice on feaht ægðær ge be wætere ge be lande. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 79 (MED) Here emcristen..fareð ðar mide be londe and be watere. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 1130 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 138 Al bi watere he wende, to þe Ermitage of Sempling-ham. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 402 If þt he faught and hadde the hyer hond By watre he sente hem hoom to euery lond. ?1478 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 649 And if it lyke yow that I may come wyth Alwedyr be watyr. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. ccv This Mayer..was rowed thyther by water. 1548 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Edward VI (1914) 29 The Caring by water to and from grenwy[ch]. 1606 T. W. Araignem. & Execution late Traytors sig. B3 They went from the Tower by water & come to Westminster. 1661 Prince Rupert in Hist. MSS Comm.: 11th Rep.: App. Pt. V (1887) 8 in Parl. Papers (C. 5060–IV) XLVIII. 1 My goods goe by Ratisbon, soe by land to Wurtzbourg, and from thence by water the rest of the journey. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 348 A little Town..from whence I had but six Days by Water to Arch-Angel. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 144 In going down the river by water, he was by mistake put on board of another vessel under sail. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. viii. 235 The hostile ships made awful preparation to commence a vehement assault by water. 1864 T. S. Williams & P. L. Simmonds Eng. Commerc. Corr. 116 You will please to receive the said goods, and forward them to us by water. 1886 C. Scholl Phraseol. Dict. II. 834 Conveyance is, in this case, cheaper by water than by rail. 1900 S. J. Weyman Story Francis Cludde (new ed.) xviii. 210 A prisoner..was taken to the Tower by water this afternoon. 1937 Life 13 Sept. 89/2 (caption) A rubber factory is run by Firestone 40 miles inland... Rubber is shipped by water to the coast. 1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 262/1 Ijo speakers live in the Niger Delta, where travel is often easiest by water. < as lemmas |
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