English Dictionary

between wind and water

前置詞句

広義 口語 婉語

(nautical) In that part of a ship's side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the water's surface.

日本語の意味

船の転がりや水面の変動によって、普段は水中にある船の側面または底部が一時的に水面に現れる部分。

A thick ring of barnacles had formed between wind and water on the ship's hull, marking the line that the tide and the roll of the vessel exposed again and again.

船体の、船の揺れや水面の変動でしばしば水上に現れる部分に分厚いフジツボの輪ができており、潮や揺れで何度も露出した線を示していた。

意味（1）

(nautical) In that part of a ship's side or bottom which is frequently brought above water by the rolling of the ship, or fluctuation of the water's surface.

意味（2）

(colloquial, by extension) At the vulnerable part or point of anything.

意味（3）

(colloquial, euphemistic, by extension) At a person's crotch (i.e. between the sources of flatulence and urine).