| 单词 | pump dale |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspump dale pump dale n. Nautical A trough or pipe for carrying off water; = dale n.3 1. ΚΠ a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) lf. 60 b Ye Pump-dale is as it were the Trough wherein the water doth run alongst the Deck out to the skupper holes. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 4 Not for that she's very apt to be leaky; not for that her Pump-dale smells strongest when she has the soundest Bottom; but chiefly because her Rigging,..is always worth double her Carcase. 1800 S. Standidge in Naval Chron. 3 472 They pumping the water into a pump dill. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 139 Pump dales, pipes fitted to the cisterns, to convey..water..through the ship's sides. 1978 P. O'Brian Desolation Island iii. 66 The channels and pump-dales are choked with all this straw: they must be cleared. 1987 Amer. Jrnl. Archeol. 91 37/2 Water is thus carried up through the length of the wooden tube and is discharged into the pump dale. < as lemmas |
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