“dog、vane”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

dog-vane

释义

dog-vane Naut.
1. ‘A small vane made of thread, cork, and feathers, or buntin, placed on the weather gunwale to show the direction of the wind’ (Sailor's Word-bk.).
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Dog-Vane, a small light vane, formed of a piece of pack-thread about two feet in length.1829Marryat F. Mildmay xiv, His head turned like a dog-vane in a gale of wind.1859O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. i, The fool's judgment is a dog-vane that turns with a breath.
attrib.1825H. B. Gascoigne Nav. Fame 51 The Dog-vane Staff the Quartermaster moves, The wind upon the Larboard Quarter proves.
2. ‘Familiarly applied to a cockade.’
1785Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue, Dowse your dog vane, take the cockade out of your hat.a1814Dibdin Bill Bobstay, There's Nipcheese, the purser,..The eddy of Fortune stands on a stiff breeze in, And mounts, fierce as fire, a dog-vane in his hat.

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