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Borrow, to
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
To approach closely either to land or wind; to hug a shoal or coast in order to avoid adverse tide.
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Bort, английский
- The name given to a long fishing-line in the shetland isles.
- Originally the term was used as a name for all crystalline diamonds not usable as gems; later it was used to designate those diamonds not usable as gems or toolstones. currently the term commonly is applied to low-grade industrials suitable only for use in a fragmented form. see fragmented bort. also sometimes spelled boart, boartz, boort, borts, bortz, bowr.
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, английский
Said of a person who, by birth or connection, has all the usual obstacles to advancement cleared away for him. those who toil unceasingly for preferment, and toil in vain, are said to have been born with a wooden ladle. again, the silver-spoon gentry are said to come on board through the cabin windows; those less favoured, over the bows, or through the hawse-holes.
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