English Dictionary

gone north about

動詞

慣用表現 廃用

(idiomatic, obsolete, nautical) Dead, of sailor or seaman whose cause of death was anything except by drowning. / (idiomatic) Dead.

日本語の意味

（熟語）溺死以外の原因で亡くなった船員を指す、または単に死んだ（という意味の表現）

The old seaman had gone north about last winter.

その古参の船員は昨冬、溺死以外の原因で亡くなっていた。

意味（1）

(idiomatic, obsolete, nautical) Dead, of sailor or seaman whose cause of death was anything except by drowning.

..And he's gone on a cruise he liked better than the one you'd have had him; but that's no matter; I had better have gone north about twenty times over than come athwart you.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) Dead.