| 单词 |
waveson |
| 释义 |
waveson Maritime Law.|ˈweɪvsən| [App. formed after AF. floteson flotsam: perh. originally f. waive v.1, but associated with wave n.] (See quot. 1701.) Also fig.
1526in Kennett Cowel's Interpr. (1701) s.v., Waveson, Flotteson, Lagason & Wrecks & Regalia videl. Magnas pisces captas, &c. 1701Kennett ibid., Waveson, such Goods as after Shipwreck do appear swimming on the waves. [Whence1706in Phillips: and in later Dicts.] 1894E. P. Evans in Pop. Sci. Monthly XLIV. 299 Persons of unknown origin were treated as waifs (épaves), the mere flotson and waveson on the drifting tide of humanity. |

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