英和和英

名詞

boat-puller (plural boat-pullers)

1. The members of a boat's crew who are oarsmen or paddlers and prey-clubbers, as contrasted with those who are harpooners, gaffers, or anglers.
   • 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:

     I stepped out and advanced valiantly upon a long-maned bull in the midst of his wives. I was armed with the regular club with which the boat-pullers killed the wounded seals gaffed aboard by the hunters.