afterguard

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of a ship, to attend the after-sails. historical
    — There were times when the whole crew refused their duty; and we of the afterguard were twice got under arms—being the first time that ever I bore weapons—in the fear of mutiny.
  2. The members of a yacht's crew who attend to the aft sails
    — This is his sixth Cup campaign but his first as skipper, a position he inherited after the helmsman Russell Coutts, Butterworth’s longtime alter ego in the afterguard, bolted from Alinghi in 2004.
  3. A drudge; somebody tasked with menial work.

词形变化

afterguards plural

词汇关系

衍生词
afterguardsman

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros
Proto-Germanic *after
Old English æfter
Middle English after
English after
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Old English æfter
Old English æfter-
Middle English after-
English after-
English guard
English afterguard
From after- + guard.
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