| 单词 | pothole lake |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspothole lake pothole lake n. North American a small shallow depression containing a (sometimes only seasonal) pond, small lake, or marsh; spec. one created by the gouging effects of a moving glacier, usually in a recessional moraine or outwash plain; cf. kettle hole n. at kettle n. Compounds 2 (in quot. 1928, the name of a small lake of glacial origin in the state of Washington). ΚΠ 1928 Geogr. Rev. 18 463 Pothole Lake at right, Battleship Rock in middle left of the view.] 1938 S. C. Ells Northland Trails 85 It is a land of..mysterious pot-hole lakes and ponds with neither inlets or outlets. 1946 Sun (Baltimore) 5 July 11/3 Experimental planting of fish with airplanes gives promise for the ‘back in there’ pothole lakes and spring holes. 1954 Amer. Midland Naturalist 52 403 (title) Notes on waterfowl of certain pothole lakes of eastern Washington. 1992 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) Oct. 48/3 In 1958, I flew with Jim in his fully loaded Cessna 180 to a highway construction camp on a drought-shrunken pothole lake southwest of Fort Rae. < as lemmas |
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