haaf

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. the open sea, especially as a place to fish Scotland,Shetland
    — The banks to which they repair for the haaf fishing, are often many miles distant from the station where the fish is dried; so that they are always twenty or thirty hours absent, frequently longer; and under unfavourable circumstances of wind and tide, they remain at sea, with a very small stock of provisions, and in a boat of a construction which seems extremely slender, for two or three days, and are sometimes heard of no more.
  2. the practice of sea fishing for such as cod, ling and tusk Shetland
    — Although men concentrated at the main haaf stations during the summer fishing season, they reverted to their homes in crofting townships for the remainder of the year.

词形变化

haave alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
haaf fish haaf net haaf netting

词源

From Old Norse haf (“the sea”). Cognate with Danish hav, Old English hæf (Etymology 2).
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