| 单词 |
boating |
| 释义 |
▪ I. boating, vbl. n.|ˈbəʊtɪŋ|
[f. boat n. and v.]
†1. Boats, in a collective sense. Cf. shipping. Obs.
1610J. Melvill Diary (1842) 707 Taking the first convenient boiteing com by watter to Westminster. Ibid. 711 We tuik boitting the 2 of July.
2. The action of going by boat, or of rowing; now esp. rowing as an amusement.
1788A. Falconbridge Afr. Slave Tr. 18 Another mode of procuring slaves..by what they term boating..The sailors..go in boats up the rivers, seeking for negroes. 1856Kane Arct. Exp. I. ix. 92 We came to the end of our boating. 1874Blackie Self-Cult. 45 Boating..is a manly and characteristically British exercise.
b. attrib.
1835Marryat Olla Podr. v, We were on a boating expedition. 1881W. E. Norris Matrim. I. 290 To change his boating flannels.
†3. A punishment in ancient Persia, in which the offender was tied down in a boat, and left to perish, or be eaten by vermin.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp.
▪ II. ˈboating, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Addicted to boating.
1884J. Hatton in Harper's Mag. July 229/2 Celebrated as boating men. |
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