英语词汇“coast、guard”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

coast-guard

释义

coast-guard|ˈkəʊstgɑːd|
A force employed to guard the coast. Also attrib.
In Great Britain the Coast Guard was originally employed under the Customs department to prevent smuggling (hence called the Preventive Service); the force was in 1856 transferred to the Admiralty, to be used as a general police force for the coast, available also as a defensive force.
1833H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. i. 7 So Nicholas is to be one of the Coast Guard.1863H. Cox Instit. iii. viii. 722 The forces employed in the coast-guard and revenue cruisers.1879G. Fennell in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 186/2 There ought to be a constant inspection..entrusted to the coast-guard service, which we believe has but little of its old original work of looking after smugglers.Mod. The white-washed coast-guard station on the cliff.
Hence ˈcoastguard-man (also coastguardsman), a member of the coast-guard.
1848Johns Week at Lizard 197 A coastguard-man who had..been a smuggler.1870M. Bridgman R. Lynne II. xiv. 291 He looked like a coastguardsman.

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