ship-breachとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• ship-breach

語源

From 中期英語 schipbreche, schipbrüche, from 古期英語 scipbryċe, scipbroc, scipġebroc (“shipwreck; that which washes ashore from shipwreck, wreckage”, literally “ship-breaking”), equivalent to ship +‎ breach. Cognate with Scots schipbrek (“shipwreck”), Dutch schipbreuk (“shipwreck”), German Schiffbruch (“shipwreck”).

名詞

shipbreach (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Shipwreck.
   • 1893, Bartholomew Anglicus [i.e., Bartholomaeus Anglicus], translated by John Trevisa, edited by Robert Steele, Medieval Lore: An Epitome of the Science, Geography, Animal and Plant Folk-lore and Myth of the Middle Age, London: Elliot Stock, page 93:

     Also in shipbreach men flee to a board, and are oft saved in peril.

   • 1999, Robert M. Torrance, Robert M. Torrance:

     [...] and the third with an harp, and they please so shipmen, with likeness of song, that they draw them to peril and to shipbreach [shipwreck], but the sooth [truth] is, that they were strong [w]hores, that drew men that passed by them to poverty and to mischief.