English Dictionary

lobster pot

名詞

A trap used to catch lobsters, resembling a crate with a small opening that a lobster can enter but has trouble exiting. / Synonym of lobster-tailed pot (“kind of helmet”)

日本語の意味

ロブスターを捕えるための罠。一種のかごのような形状で、ロブスターが侵入できるが、脱出が困難な小さな開口部がある装置。 / 「lobster-tailed pot」の同義語として、一種のヘルメットを指す場合もある。

The fishermen hauled up an old lobster pot that had been snagged on the reef, its wooden slats encrusted with barnacles.

漁師たちは礁に引っかかっていた古いロブスター用のわなを引き上げ、その木のすのこはフジツボでびっしり覆われていた。

意味（1）

A trap used to catch lobsters, resembling a crate with a small opening that a lobster can enter but has trouble exiting.

意味（2）

Synonym of lobster-tailed pot (“kind of helmet”)

As pikemen were required to engage the enemy closely, they frequently wore steel helmets and a cuirass that is both armored breast and back plates. The helmets, or pots or lobster pots, were slightly angular round helmet[s] with […]

意味（3）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lobster, pot: a pot for cooking a lobster in.

... should have been tucked behind his driver's license—and Larry saw the photograph—Marie and Sean in the kitchen wearing lobster pots for helmets and wielding frying pans for rapiers—but his driver's license appeared to be missing.

lobster pots （ plural ）