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单词 land-water
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land-watern.

Brit. /ˈlandˌwɔːtə/, U.S. /ˈlæn(d)ˌwɔdər/, /ˈlæn(d)ˌwɑdər/
a. Water that flows through or over land, as opposed to sea water.
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the world > the earth > water > [noun] > water on land
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1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII c. 5 ⁋ Lande waters, and other outragious springes in and upon medowes, pastures, and other lowe groundes.
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxiv. 66/2 The land waters that by the continuall raine falleth from the Hilles.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. vi. 91 Land-waters, as rivers, fountaines, brookes, springs, floods, and lakes.
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xi. 297 No springs or land-waters are to be found here.
b. A land-flood.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun] > river
land-flood1390
spatec1425
water break1513
flowa1616
overfloat1619
land-watera1631
freshet1638
surflux1660
spring-flood1714
shute1839
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) V. 360 Sudden riches come like a land-water, and bring much foulnesse with them.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 180 Which River they supposed to be..swelled with a Land-Water.
c. Water free from ice along a frozen shore.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxvi. 264 We..found ourselves in a stretch of the land-water wide enough to give us rowing-room.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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land-water
land-water adj. Obsolete amphibious, nondescript.
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1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 68 This amphibious Creature, this Land-water-thing, call'd, a Gentleman-Tradesman.
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