Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, having its iron bolts and spikes very much corroded: said of a wooden ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Naut.) Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective nautical Having the
ironwork loose orcorroded ; said of aship when thebolts andnails are so badly eaten withrust as to causeleaks .
Etymologies
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iron + sick
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Examples
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Hawke describes the _Portland_, a ship of which he was in command, as "iron-sick"; the wood was too rotten, that is, to hold the iron bolts, so that "not a man in the ship had a dry place to sleep in."
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