| 单词 | messenger |
| 释义 | messenger /mes"euhn jeuhr/, n. 1. a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, esp. as a matter of duty or business. 2. a person employed to convey official dispatches or to go on other official or special errands: a bank messenger. 3. Naut. a. a rope or chain made into an endless belt to pull on an anchor cable or to drive machinery from some power source, as a capstan or winch. b. a light line by which a heavier line, as a hawser, can be pulled across a gap between a ship and a pier, a buoy, another ship, etc. 4. Oceanog. a brass weight sent down a line to actuate a Nansen bottle or other oceanographic instrument. 5. Archaic. a herald, forerunner, or harbinger. v.t. 6. to send by messenger. [1175-1225; ME messager, messangere < AF; OF messagier. See MESSAGE, -ER2] Syn. 1. bearer, courier. |
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