| 单词 | half-tide rock |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf-tide rock attrib. and Comb. Left dry or accessible at half-tide, as half-tide cavern, half-tide rock; half-tide basin n. (or half-tide dock) one fitted with gates which are closed at half-ebb. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [adjective] > left dry at half tide half-tide1847 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Half-tide dock, a basin connecting two or more docks, and communicating with the entrance basin. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 532 Half-tide rocks, very dangerous to the mariner, which lie a full half-mile from the shore. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. ix. 242 It is not every half-tide cavern that is thus inhabited. 1880 T. Stevenson in Encycl. Brit. XI. 466/1 In order to extend the time during which vessels can enter or leave a wet dock there are two additional works which are often connected with it. These are the entrance-lock and the outer or half-tide basin. < as lemmas |
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