| 单词 | earth-walled |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearth-walled C7. Parasynthetic, as earth-floored, earth-roofed, earth-walled, etc. Cf. earthen adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1809 A. M. Porter Don Sebastian II. 169 The girl..admitted Sebastian into a low, earth-floored room. 1838 J. R. Peabody World of Wonders (ed. 3) 56 Within an earth-walled enclosure..are six miniature tumuli. 1898 Missionary Herald (Boston) June 230/2 We are out of doors on the earth floor, under a low earth-roofed porch. 1930 N.Y. Times 2 Mar. (Special Features section) 4/1 Desert wastes, where aboriginal tribes built their earth-walled towns and tended their communal gardens. 1979 C. Foss Ephesus after Antiq. iii. x. 174 Most of the population lived below the hill of Ayashuluk in a village of about a hundred earth-roofed houses. 1984 Times 22 Aug. 12/4 The screech of brakes brings Israeli troops running from their earth-banked encampment beside the road. 1994 San Diego Union Tribune (Nexis) 18 Feb. b1 District officials have been trying to drum up support for their proposed $30.8 million earth-bottomed channel. 2001 Monumenta Nipponica 56 514 They rebuilt their entire kitchens, eliminating the traditional earth-floored spaces and replacing them with cement or linoleum flooring. < as lemmas |
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