| 单词 | cross-timber |
| 释义 | > as lemmascross-timber (ii) spec. Transverse to the direction in which the main or principal thing of the kind lies, and thus often a branch of it, or otherwise subordinate to it, as cross-barrel, cross-drain, cross-furrow, cross-lane, cross-lode, cross-passage, cross-timber, cross-trench, cross-turnpike, cross vein, cross-wall; cross-course n., cross-path n., cross-road n., cross-street n., cross-way n., etc. Π 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons *** iij With trenches, cross-trenches, gabions, and diverse other. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §120 As if you should make a Cross-barrel hollow, thorow the Barrel of a Piece. 1725 Manchester Rec. (U.S.) I. 165 Southerly by the Towns land cal'd the Pasonage land as the Cross wall now stands. 1758 E. M. da Costa in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 233 These cross-loads are generally filled with fragments of..minerals. 1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 12 Nov. 385 We did not take the cross-turnpike till we came to Whitchurch. 1834 Stephens in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 474 A drain must be carried along..with outlets to the cross-drains. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 1 Aug. 7/2 He attempted to run back, but the cross-wall was immediately behind him. 1926 F. W. Crofts Inspector French & Cheyne Myst. x. 134 They reached the cross-lane at Earlswood. 1951 Archit. Rev. 109 140/2 An uncompromising system of concrete cross-walls is used, based on a method of construction developed in Denmark during the war. 1958 C. Tomlinson Seeing is Believing (1960) 19 The wind eludes them Streaking its cross-lanes over the uneasy water. < as lemmas |
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