英语词汇“benching-in”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†a. With reference to a building or structure: the action or fact of receding in terraces or steps, as in a pyramid; a terrace of this type. Also occasionally as benching-in. Obsolete.

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1716 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected (ed. 2) I. ii. 99 The whole ascent to it [sc. the Tower of Babel] was by the benching in drawn in a sloping line from the bottom to the top eight times round it.

1730 A. Bedford Script. Chronol. v. iv. 568/2 The Side of the Mount rose about 61 Feet, and bench'd in... So that at every such Benching there was a Walk round, from whence a Prospect of the Country might be seen.

1787 tr. C. E. Savary Lett. on Egypt (ed. 2) I. xviii. 237 The aperture by which they effected this was the well I have mentioned,..which occupies a part of the bottom of the benching, rising two feet in the wall.

1832 E. Robinson Calmet's Dict. Holy Bible (rev. ed.) 50/1 The ascent..landed upon the upper benching-in, near the hearth, or top of the altar.

1908 B. Cunningham Treat. Princ. & Pract. Harbour Engin. viii. 189 The best form of pierhead is that which presents an upright front to the sea on all sides, without benching or recesses of any description.

单词	benching-in
释义	> as lemmas benching-in †a. With reference to a building or structure: the action or fact of receding in terraces or steps, as in a pyramid; a terrace of this type. Also occasionally as benching-in. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1716 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected (ed. 2) I. ii. 99 The whole ascent to it [sc. the Tower of Babel] was by the benching in drawn in a sloping line from the bottom to the top eight times round it. 1730 A. Bedford Script. Chronol. v. iv. 568/2 The Side of the Mount rose about 61 Feet, and bench'd in... So that at every such Benching there was a Walk round, from whence a Prospect of the Country might be seen. 1787 tr. C. E. Savary Lett. on Egypt (ed. 2) I. xviii. 237 The aperture by which they effected this was the well I have mentioned,..which occupies a part of the bottom of the benching, rising two feet in the wall. 1832 E. Robinson Calmet's Dict. Holy Bible (rev. ed.) 50/1 The ascent..landed upon the upper benching-in, near the hearth, or top of the altar. 1908 B. Cunningham Treat. Princ. & Pract. Harbour Engin. viii. 189 The best form of pierhead is that which presents an upright front to the sea on all sides, without benching or recesses of any description. extracted from benchingn. < as lemmas
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