| 单词 |
Nantucketer |
| 释义 |
Nantucketer|nænˈtʌkɪtə(r)|
[f. Nantucket, the name of an American island off the coast of Massachusetts + -er1.]
A native or inhabitant of Nantucket.
1851H. Melville Moby Dick II. xli. 279 Now some Nantucketers rather distrust this historical story of Jonah and the whale. 1882E. K. Godfrey Island of Nantucket 24 The Nantucketers seem to have a mania for bell-ringing. 1914R. A. Douglas-Lithgow Nantucket xv. 296 A Nantucketer does not pull, he always ‘hauls’, he does not tie or fasten anything, he ‘splices’ it. 1935Amer. Speech X. 38/1 The calm superiority of the Nantucketer is shown in the case of the school boy who began his composition thus: ‘Napoleon was a great man..but he was an off-islander.’ 1948Sat. Even. Post 26 June 46/3 Russells had also played a part, along with Howlands and Rotches, who had been Nantucketers, in committing New Bedford to the gigantic gamble on whaling. 1974Sci. Amer. Mar. 119/1 The yellowfin-tuna fishery on the Pacific Equator, worked only recently by American and Japanese long⁓liners, is plainly disclosed in the Nantucketers' logbooks. |
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