| 单词 |
bultow |
| 释义 |
bultow|ˈbʊltəʊ| [Mahn says ‘f. bull large, and tow’; but the word looks like an alteration of bulter, bultey, under the influence of ‘popular etymology’. (Du. bulletouw, ‘a name applied to several ropes about a ship’, has also been suggested.)] (See quots.)
1858P. L. Simmonds Comm. Dict., Bultow, a mode of fishing practised in the [Newfoundland] Bank fisheries by stringing a number of hooks on one line. 1883Standard 13 Sept. 5/4 The ‘bultow’ is..a set line, called in some places a ‘trawl line’. |

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