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单词 rock-water
释义 rock-water
[rock n.1]
Water issuing from a rock, naturally clear and cold.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. Lawe 9 Christ-Typing Manna, Quails, Rock-waters fall.1650Trapp Comm. Deut. xxviii. 2 As the rock-water followed the Israelites in the wilderness.1705Addison Italy 461 It was extreamly muddy at its Entrance..though as clear as Rock Water at its going out.1772Graves Spir. Quix. (1820) I. 190, I don't pretend to live upon roots and rock-water.1838J. Pardoe River & Desert I. 159 A delicious fountain, into whose basin the sparkling rock-water is poured.1948F. Blake Johnny Christmas i. 40 Yet in this utter lack of sound, except for the sputter of flames and the musical seep of rock-water, Johnny came alert, strangely, as if awakened by a thin cry of warning.
attrib.1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VII. 239 Her invitation most certainly runs all in the rock-water style.
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