单词 | jaw-hole |
释义 | jaw-holen.1 A hole into which dirty water or other liquid is ‘jawed’ or thrown; an open entrance to a sewer, house-drain, or cesspool. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > sewage treatment > [noun] > use of cesspools or lagoons > cesspool or pit sink1413 midden pita1425 sinkhole1456 suspiralc1512 sentine1537 dung pit1598 muck pit1598 sinker1623 bumby1632 sump1680 sump hole1754 jaw-hole1760 recess1764 cesspool1783 dead-hole1856 soil-tank1861 cesspit1864 lagoon1909 sewage lagoon1930 1760 City Cleaned & County Improv. Jaw-holls or water~spouts of timber [etc.]. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. i. 12 Piloting, with some dexterity, along the little path which bordered the formidable jaw-hole, whose vicinity the stranger was made sensible of by means of more organs than one. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. ii. 25 That odoriferous filthy gulph, ycleped, in Scottish phrase, the jaw-hole, in other words, an uncovered common sewer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). jaw-holen.2 A gaping fissure or opening; an abyss. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > abyss swallowa700 deepnessa1000 deep1393 abysmc1475 dungeonc1475 depth1523 gulfa1533 downfall1542 hell-kettle1577 abysmus1611 vorago1654 under-abyss1662 purgatory1766 fosse1805 jaw-hole1840 1840 T. A. Trollope Summer in Brittany II. xxxiv. 187 A sort of jaw-hole, or abyss, moreover, is still pointed out between Huelgoat and Cairhax, which this vixen of a princess used as a second—or rather first—Tour de Nesle. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Jaw-hooal, a fissure or opening in the land, as the mouth of a stream. The arched entrance to a cavern. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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