| 单词 | middlewalk dam |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmiddlewalk dam A wide roadway or dam built in the middle of a sugar plantation, connecting the public road and the front of the estate to the backdam (backdam n. 1). Also: the central irrigation canal or trench dug to build such a dam. Also more fully middlewalk canal, middlewalk dam, middlewalk road, middlewalk trench. Cf. sideline n. 4. ΚΠ 1824 Papers relating to Proc. of Court Martial on Trial J. Smith, Missionary, in Demerara. 22 in Parl. Papers H.C. 158 XXIII. 373 I was on the middle walk of [Plantation] Success on that day. 1876 Sugar Cane 1 Sept. 471 Now I shall line out my middle walk trench. 1965 Berbice Times 20 June 5 in R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (1996) 381/1 The digging of a side-line and a middle-walk. 2012 H. Gulmahamad Guyana Memories 78 He walked across the koker trench bridge and travelled on the middlewalk dam to the public road. < as lemmas |
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