BREECHES BUOY

Meaning of BREECHES BUOY in English

[breech.es buoy] n (1880): a canvas seat in the form of breeches hung from a life buoy running on a hawser and used to haul persons from one ship to another or from ship to shore esp. in rescue operations

Merriam-Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Merriam Webster. 2012

BREECHES BUOY — noun Date: 1880 a canvas seat in the form of breeches hung from a life buoy running on a hawser …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BREECHES BUOY — see breech I noun : a canvas seat shaped like a pair of short-legged breeches which is dependent from a …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BREECHES BUOY — Naut. a rescue device consisting of a life buoy from which is suspended a canvas sling, similar in form to …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BREECHES BUOY — ˈbri- noun Date: 1880 : a canvas seat in the form of breeches hung from a life buoy running on …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BREECHES BUOY — Pronunciation: ' br ē -ch ə z- also ' bri- Function: noun Date: 1880 : a canvas seat in the …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
BREECHES BUOY — ■ noun a lifebuoy on a rope with a canvas support resembling a pair of breeches, by means of which …
Concise Oxford English vocab
BREECHES BUOY — (морское) спасательная беседка (для снятия людей с аварийного судна)
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BREECHES-BUOY — сущ. спасательная люлька (для снятия людей с аварийного судна) n спасательная люлька (для снятия людей с аварийного судна)
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BREECHES BUOY — мор. спасательная беседка ( для снятия людей с аварийного судна )
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BREECHES-BUOY — _n. спасательная люлька (для снятия людей с аварийного судна)
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BREECHES-BUOY — сущ.спасательная люлька (для снятия людей с аварийного судна)
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
BREECHES BUOY — мор. спасательная беседка ( для снятия людей с аварийного судна )
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
BREECHES BUOY — мор. спасательная беседка ( для снятия людей с аварийного судна )
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
BREECHES BUOY — спасательная люлька
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
BREECHES BUOY — спасательная люлька
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
BREECHES-BUOY — сущ. спасательная люлька ( для снятия людей с аварийного судна )
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
BREECHES-BUOY — сущ. спасательная люлька (для снятия людей с аварийного судна)
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
BREECHES-BUOY — _n. спасательная люлька (для снятия людей с аварийного судна)
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
BREECHES-BUOY — n. спасательная люлька (для снятия людей с аварийного судна)
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
BREECHES-BUOY — спасательная люлька (для снятия людей с аварийного судна)
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
BREECHES-BUOY — _n. спасательная люлька (для снятия людей с аварийного судна)
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
BREECHES-BUOY — сущ. спасательная люлька (для снятия людей с аварийного судна) n спасательная люлька (для снятия людей с аварийного судна)
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
BREECHES BUOY — (морское) спасательная беседка (для снятия людей с аварийного судна)
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
BREECHES — culotte
English interlingue dictionary
BUOY — I. ˈbüi, ˈbu̇i, ˈbȯi — ˈbȯi is usual in pronunc of “life buoy” noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BUOY — (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.
Английский словарь Webster
BUOY — (v. t.) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to …
Английский словарь Webster
BREECHES — (n. pl.) Trousers; pantaloons.
Английский словарь Webster
BREECHES — (n. pl.) A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
Английский словарь Webster
BUOY — ( v. t. ) To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BUOY — ( v. i. ) To float; to rise like a buoy.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BREECHES — ( n. pl. ) Trousers; pantaloons.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BREECHES — ( n. pl. ) A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
BUOY — /booh"ee, boy/ , n. 1. Naut. a distinctively shaped and marked float, sometimes carrying a signal or signals, anchored to …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BREECHES — /brich"iz/ , n. ( used with a pl. v. ) 1. Also called knee breeches . knee-length trousers, often having …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BREECHES — n. pants
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BUOY — I. ˈbü-ē, ˈbȯi noun Etymology: Middle English boye, probably from Middle Dutch boeye; akin to Old High German bouhhan sign …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BUOY — vi to float; to rise like a buoy. 2. buoy ·vt to support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into …
Webster English vocab
BREECHES — noun ·pl trousers; pantaloons. 2. breeches ·noun ·pl a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
Webster English vocab
BREECHES — ■ plural noun short trousers fastened just below the knee, now chiefly worn for riding or as part of ceremonial …
Concise Oxford English vocab
BUOY — [buoy] n [ME boye, prob. fr. MD boeye; akin to OHG bouhhan sign--more at beacon] (13c) 1: float 2; esp: …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BUOY — floating object anchored at a definite location to guide or warn mariners, to mark positions of submerged objects, or to …
Britannica English vocabulary
BUOY — buoy BrE AmE bɔɪ AmE ˈbu ː ‿i bɔɪ (in British English = boy) ▷ buoyed bɔɪd AmE ˈbu ː …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BREECHES — breeches 'trousers' BrE AmE ˈbrɪtʃ ɪz ˈbriːtʃ-, -əz
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BUOY — / bɔɪ; NAmE ; NAmE also ˈbuːi/ noun , verb ■ noun an object which floats on the sea or …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BREECHES — / ˈbrɪtʃɪz; NAmE / noun [ pl. ] short trousers / pants fastened just below the knee : a pair …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BUOY — I. buoy 1 /bɔɪ $ ˈbuːi, bɔɪ/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Origin: Probably from Middle Dutch …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BREECHES — breech ‧ es /ˈbrɪtʃəz, ˈbrɪtʃɪz/ BrE AmE noun [plural] short trousers that fasten just below the knees: riding breeches
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BREECHES — n.pl. (also pair of breeches sing.) 1 short trousers, esp. fastened below the knee, now used esp. for riding or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BREECHES — n.pl. (also pair of breeches sing.) 1 short trousers, esp. fastened below the knee, now used esp. for riding or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BREECHES — n.pl. (also pair of breeches sing.) 1. short trousers, esp. fastened below the knee, now used esp. for riding or …
Oxford English vocab
BUOY — ( buoys, buoying, buoyed) 1. A buoy is a floating object that is used to show ships and boats where …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BREECHES — Breeches are trousers which reach as far as your knees. ( OLD-FASHIONED ) ...riding breeches. N-PLURAL : also a pair …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BREECHES — Breeches are trousers which reach as far as your knees. (OLD-FASHIONED) ...riding ~. N-PLURAL: also a pair of N
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
BUOY — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES life buoy EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But, like Conner, he brushed the buoy and …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BREECHES — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES knee breeches EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was dressed neatly enough in grey breeches , …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BREECHES — US britches [plural] [noun] - tight trousers that do not cover the whole of the legriding breeches
Cambridge English vocab
BUOY — Synonyms and related words : Carling float, Mae West, Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, balsa, balsa …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
BREECHES — See: TOO BIG FOR ONE'S BREECHES.
Slang English vocab
BREECHES — To wear the breeches; a woman who governs her husband is said to wear the breeches.
Slang English vocab
BREECHES — n. pl. 1. Small-clothes, knee-~. 2. Trousers, pantaloons.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
BREECHES — noun Breeches is used after these nouns: ↑ riding
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
BUOY — n. 1 (navigational or channel) mark or marker, float; nun (-buoy), can (-buoy), bell (buoy), gong (-buoy), siren, signal, mooring-buoy, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
BREECHES — See: TOO BIG FOR ONE'S BREECHES.
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Merriam-Webster English vocab

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