catamaran

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌkæ.tə.məˈɹæn/|/ˈkæ.tə.məˌɹæn/    美 /ˈkæ.tə.məˌɹæn/|/ˌkæ.tə.məˈɹæn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A twin-hulled ship or boat.
    — Swift over the seas the vessel drives; Madras appears in sight. The first object catching the eye, upon the anchor being cast, was an Indian upon his catamaran, who, making a sudden motion, sprung to the side of the ship, grappled there for a moment, and the next was on the deck.
  2. A quarrelsome woman; a scold. colloquial,obsolete,rare
    — She meddles with my prescriptions for your wife; she doctors the infant in private: you'll never have a quiet house or a quiet wife as long as that old Catamaran is here.
  3. A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together, the middle piece being longer than the others, and serving as a keel on which the rower squats while paddling. obsolete
    — Three or four strange-looking things now came close to our boat, which I understood were called ‘catamarans’, consisting of nothing more than two or three large trees, the trunk part only strongly lashed together, upon which sat two men nearly in a state of nature […] .
  4. An old kind of fireship. obsolete

词形变化

catamarans plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cat cataraft
相关词
trimaran
并列词
monohull outrigger canoe

词源

From Tamil கட்டுமரம் (kaṭṭumaram), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to tie”) + மரம் (maram, “tree, wood”).
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