Scotchman

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scot; a Scotsman.

(n.) A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear.

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• He once lived wi' a Scotchman that tached him the mysteries o' that craft, as they say. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mr. Forsyth, a Scotchman, who in 1803 invented the percussion principle in fire-arms. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Leave the prejudiced old Scotchman; go away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But the type of the modern threshing machine was the invention of a Scotchman, one Meikle, of Tyningham, East Lothian, in 1786. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• James Gregory, a Scotchman, designed the first reflector in 1663, and described it in a book, but he was too poor to construct it. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Also about this time, Symington, the Scotchman, constructed a working model of a steam carriage, which is still preserved in the museum at South Kensington, London. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Although he was a Scotchman he laughed immoderately. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• About the same time Robert Davidson, a Scotchman, experimented with an electric railway car sixteen feet long, weighing six tons, and attaining a speed of four miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In 1794, a Scotchman invented the grain cradle. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The old Scotchman was one of the innocent, chartered libertines of the place, with an unlimited stock of good jokes and stories, but seldom of any practical use. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Paragon then put them to bed, gave them a Scotchman, in the shape of a pill, and all was still as the grave! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The inventor was Alexander Graham Bell, by nativity a Scotchman, then a resident of Canada, and finally a citizen of the United States. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• British science was largely the creation of Englishmen and Scotchmen[458] working outside the ordinary centres of erudition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Symington and his fellow Scotchmen, Miller and Taylor, in 1788-89 also constructed working steamboats. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Meanwhile the King was plotting and looking for help in strange quarters--from the Catholic Irish, from treasonable Scotchmen. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Scotchmen do not seem to believe very much in this British nationality. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Then you may come, and I'll teach you to knit as the Scotchmen do. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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