| 单词 | boatswains-chair |
| 释义 | boatswain's chair in British Englishnoun nautical a seat consisting of a short flat board slung from ropes, used to support a person working on the side of a vessel or in its rigging boatswain's chair in American Englishnoun a seat composed of a plank suspended in a horizontal position from ropes, used by painters and other persons who work on the exteriors of buildings, ships, etc., while seatedat a considerable height Word origin [1875–80]This word is first recorded in the period 1875–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: authoritarian, graph, musical chairs, neoclassic, overdraftDefinition of 'boatswain's chair' |
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