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单词 ground-wall
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ground-walln.

Forms: see ground n. and wall n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ground n., wall n.1
Etymology: < ground n. + wall n.1
Obsolete.
1. The lower portion of a wall or building: a foundation. Also transferred and figurative.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > foundations
groundc950
ground-wallc1000
fundamentc1300
foundation1398
sole1417
paepae1846
raft1891
raft foundation1895
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 48 He ys gelic timbriendum men his hus, se..hys grundweall ofer þæne stan asette.
c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) 289 Se cræft is ealra boclicra cræfta ordfruma and grundweall.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13372 Crist iss stan to ben grunndwall Off all hiss hallȝhe temmple.
a1225 Juliana 72 Lokeð þat te heouenlich lauerd beo grundwal of al þat ȝe wurcheð.
c1275 Luue Ron 124 in Old Eng. Misc. 97 Ne may no Mynur hire [? hit] vnderwrote ne neuer false þene grundwal.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 2242 Tua and sexti fathum brad Was þe grundwall þat þai made.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 210 A castelle he þouht to reise, He cast þe groundwalle þik.
1392–3 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 114 In salar. iij cementariorum operant. super j Grundewall ibidem per iiij dies, 5s. [From other passages, this app. means: The plinth of masonry in a half timber building.]
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8424 Lere o clerge well he sal, þat es o wisdom þe grundwall.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 667/11 Hoe fundum, growndwalle.
attributive.a1755 Edom o' Gordon xii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 433/2 Why pow [= pull] ye out my ground-wa-stane, Lets in the reek to me?
2. A retaining wall (see quot. 1712).
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > wall > types of
mud walla1395
ground-wall1712
retaining wall1771
cob wall1790
wing-wall1791
honeycomb wall1850
toe wall1934
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 206 The Wall..from the Bottom of the Digging, to the Level of the Ground above..is called the Ground-Wall, because it is built only to resist the Pressure of the Ground about it.

Derivatives

ground-waller n. Obsolete one who builds a ground wall.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of walls > types of
ground-waller1477
diker1497
cowan1598
rough waller1614
sea-waller1790
stone-diker1901
1477 Order in York Myst. (1885) Introd. 21 (note) Erthe wallers, pavers, dykers, ground wallers with erthe.
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