crow's nest

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small open-top shelter, originally a cask, on the top of the foremast, large enough to accommodate a lookout. It was used by whalers to watch for a blow (spout), or in icebound waters to seek a channel.
    — When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this crow’s-nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; […].

词形变化

crow's nests plural crow's-nest alternative crowsnest alternative

词源

From the habit of crows building nests high up in trees.
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