英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɒvələ(ɹ)/

名詞

hoveller (複数形 hovellers)

1. (UK, dialect) One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
   • 1839, George Payne Rainsford James, Charles Tyrrell: Or, The Bitter Blood

     How it was that the fishermen, and hovellers, and smugglers got an inkling of what we were about, I don't know.

2. A small boat used on the coast.

参照

hoveler in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913