“billyboy”的英文意思

单词

billyboy

释义

billyboy|ˈbɪlɪbɔɪ|
[Derivation unknown: it has been conjecturally compared with bilander; also with bully-boy.]
‘A Humber or east-coast boat, of river-barge build, and a try-sail; a bluff-bowed north-country trader, or large one-masted vessel of burden.’ Smyth.
1855R. Knox E. Yorksh. 62 Small flat-bottomed sloops called Billy-boys or Humber-keels.1879Hertf. Merc. 1 Mar. 2/7 The large tanned-sail barges, sometimes called billy-boys,..coming from Rochester or other places on the Kentish coast.1884Mehalah viii. 116 The pay was too small to entice a youth, who owned a vessel, a billy-boy, and oyster pans.

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