单词 | before the mast |
释义 | BETA Examples ofbefore the mastDictionary> Examples ofbefore the mast before the mastisn’t in the Cambridge Dictionary yet. You can help! Add a definition They have, therefore, no unemployment benefit and are positively worse off in times of unemployment than the man who ordinarily worksbeforethemast. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This particular man has 27 years' servicebeforethemast. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 She said that she had served for many yearsbeforethemast. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These are the sort of people we should encourage to go to sea, so that every decent ladbeforethemast, assuming he behaves himself and proves his competency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The term,beforethemastrefers to sailors' quarters, which were located in the forecastle (the ship's bow), officers' quarters being near the stern. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Related to the latter meaning is the phrasebeforethemastwhich denotes anything related to ordinary sailors, as opposed to a ship's officers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Some of thosebeforethemastwere likely in his charge. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Some of thebeforethemastcrewmen may also have been in this section. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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