| 单词 | sea-room |
| 释义 | ˈsea-room
Space at sea free from obstruction in which a ship can be manœuvred easily. Esp. in phr. to have sea-room, also to give sea-room or take sea-room.
Also, (of a naval commander) † to give (the enemy) sea-room: to take flight.
a1554Sir H. Willoughby in Hakluyt's Voy. (1589) 269 Then perceiuing it to be a lee shoare, we gat vs into the sea, to the end to haue sea roome. 1579–80North Plutarch, Philop. (1595) 399 This ouerthrow made his enemies despise him vtterly, perswading themselues he was fled for altogether, & had giuen them sea rome. 1608Shakes. Per. iii. i. 45 But Sea-roome, and the brine and cloudy billow Kisse the Moone, I care not. a1613Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) 158 Give him Sea-roome in never so small a vessell. 1627May Lucan iii. (1631) 580 When so little Sea-roome did divide Both fleetes. 1698Capt. Langford in Phil. Trans. XX. 410 So with the North Wind they may run away to the South, to get them⁓selves Sea-room. 1748Anson's Voy. i. x. 104 We had sufficient sea-room. 1884Selborne in Law Rep. 9 App. Cases 348 The danger in the gulf is greater, because there is less sea⁓room there.
fig.1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 198 If a word be issued out of the mouth, as out of her haven, and have gotten sea⁓roome,..away she goes. 1754Richardson Grandison VII. xliii. 215 Leave her sea-room, leave her land-room, and let her have time to consider, and she will be a Bride. 1842H. Ware in Longfellow's Life (1891) I. 449 You want more sea-room for so grand an idea. |
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