单词 | navigableness |
释义 | navigablenessn. Now rare. Navigability. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > navigability navigableness1610 navigabilitya1661 floatability1884 1610 True Declar. Plantation Virginia 6 The Nauigablenesse of the Riuer, pleasure, fertility, and scituation of the land. 1698 B. Connor Hist. Poland I. v. 288 This city is considerably inrich'd by the navigableness of its river. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xxxi. 437/2 Touching the River, and the Navigableness and Fishing thereof. 1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 14 A commerce co~extensive with the navigableness of the Mississippi. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi ii. 60 To solve the problem of the navigableness of the Kebrabasa. 1870 Ladies Repository Nov. 355 The Nosee, one of those eastern rivers emptying into the Nile..which they followed on account of its navigableness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1610 |
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