| 单词 | intake tunnel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasintake tunnel 3. The place where water is taken into a channel or pipe from a river or other body of water, to drive a mill, or supply a canal, waterworks, etc. Also attributive, as intake crib, intake tunnel, intake well. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > channel for conveyance of water > place where water taken into intake?a1800 ?a1800 State, Leslie of Powis 157 (Jam.) The water for driving the machinery of said new work is taken from the river above..the cruive-dike..the intake of this water is within the bounds of the cruive-fishing property. 1804 W. Tarras Poems 40 (Jam.) Water-wraiths at in-tack drear. 1866 Times 8 Aug. 9/5 The first improvement was effected by carrying its intake up the river to Lea bridge. 1887 Spectator 9 July 921/1 Riparian towns above the intake of the Water Companies. 1892 Chicago Advance 28 Jan. An ice blockade at the port-holes had prevented the passage of the water into the intakes. 1909 Daily Chron. 21 Jan. 1/7 A fire which occurred at the construction works of a waterworks intake crib on Lake Michigan. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 21 Jan. This new intake tunnel was thrust further out into the lake. 1964 R. Perry World of Tiger xi. 160 A tiger had attacked a tapir at a reservoir near Kuala Lumpur, and..both had fallen into the dry ‘intake’ well. < as lemmas |
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