| 单词 |
town-ho |
| 释义 |
† town-ho Obs. Also 8 townor. (See quots.)
1791in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1810) III. 154 The boys, as soon as they can talk, will make use of the common phrases, as townor, which is an Indian word, and signifies that they have seen the whale twice. 1851H. Melville Whale II. 78 Town-ho,..the ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head, still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin. |
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