groatsyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[groats 词源字典]
groats: see grit
[groats etymology, groats origin, 英语词源]
boatswain (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
mid-15c., from late Old English batswegen, from bat "boat" (see boat (n.)) + Old Norse sveinn "boy" (see swain). Phonetic spelling bo'sun/bosun is attested from 1840.
BOATSWAIN. The warrant officer who in the old Navy was responsible for all the gear that set the ship in motion and all the tackle that kept her at rest. [Sir Geoffrey Callender, "Sea Passages," 1943]
goatskin (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
late 14c., from goat + skin (n.).
groats (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
"hulled grain coarsely ground or crushed; oatmeal," early 14c., from grot "piece, fragment," from Old English grot "particle," from same root as grit (n.). The word also meant "excrement in pellets" (mid-15c.).