| 单词 | pile-dwelling |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspile-dwelling pile-dwelling n. (a) a dwelling built on piles, especially in shallow water, as a lake, but sometimes on dry ground; (b) the habitation of buildings supported on piles. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > pile-dwelling pile-dwelling1863 pile habitation1864 pile house1875 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 29 It relates to the earliest age of pile-dwelling. 1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. iii. 114 Their [sc. the Etruscans] predecessors of the Neolithic age whose pile-dwellings..have yielded wheat and coral, evidences of Eastern intercourse. 1989 Jrnl. Ecol. 77 900 Settlements of the ‘pile-dwelling’ (Pfahlbau) fashion appeared on the western Alpine forelands. 1992 P. Bahn Collins Dict. Archaeol. 277 The Swiss pile-dwellings first came to scholarly notice when lake levels fell in 1853. < as lemmas |
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