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单词 redwater
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redwatern.

Brit. /ˈrɛdˌwɔːtə/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˌwɔdər/, /ˈrɛdˌwɑdər/, West African English /ˈrɛdˌwɔta/
Forms: see red adj. and n. and water n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., water n.
Etymology: < red adj. + water n. (with sense 1 compare water n. 17).The collocation red water is found earlier in medical uses in late Middle English, as denoting a type of preparation used in treating wounds, and also denoting reddish fluid exuding from a wound or swelling:c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 100v Þu schalt take my reed watir which þu schalt fynde in þe antedotarie, and waische wel al þe wounde þerynne, and þanne leye þi pailettis of lyuer to þilke sore wett in þe same water.c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 78 The fleisch þat is brusid in þe wounde..schal wexen wan and blak and caste..a maner reed watir.
1.
a. Bovine babesiosis, a tick-borne disease of cattle of which haemoglobinuria (giving a red colour to the urine) is a prominent sign. More widely: haemoglobinuria or haematuria in cattle; any of various diseases or disorders causing this, esp. leptospirosis.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or sheep > other disorders
shotc1500
foul?1523
redwater1594
blacklega1722
garget1725
dunt1784
black water1800
cothe1800
fardel-bound1825
navel ill1834
bluetongue1867
heartwater1880
orf1890
tick-borne fever1921
strike1932
1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 12b Their cattell should rot and die of the murrion or read-water.
1774 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 29 Aug. (1778) Yesterday one of the Lancashire cows died of the red-water.
1834 W. Youatt Cattle 161 It is said that the young Galloway cattle are more exposed than others to Redwater.
1879 R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 257 Some of the oxen showed symptoms of red water.
1896 W. H. Willshire Land of Dawning 86 You shall be a Stock Inspector to investigate the red-water disease amongst cattle.
1965 S. T. Ollivier Petticoat Farm ii. 22 Two of his herd died of red-water, and two more of bloat.
1997 Jrnl. S. Afr. Vet. Assoc. 68 40 The majority of livestock owners diagnose gallsickness and redwater on the basis of presenting signs and post mortem findings.
b. Any of several diseases or disorders of sheep; esp. (a) haemoglobinuria or haematuria from various causes; (b) a disease, probably braxy, in which profuse serosanguineous ascites is a prominent sign (now rare); (c) a kind of vesicular dermatitis (not identified) (obsolete).Babesiosis, the chief cause of redwater in cattle, is very rare in sheep.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > skin disorders
shabc897
pelt-rot?1523
dartars1580
redwater1614
rubbers1779
sheep-scab1894
scabby mouth1938
cuckoo scab1941
the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep
pocka1325
soughta1400
pox1530
mad1573
winter rot1577
snuffa1585
leaf1587
leaf-sickness1614
redwater1614
mentigo1706
tag1736
white water1743
hog pox1749
rickets1755
side-ill1776
resp1789
sheep-fag1789
thorter-ill1791
vanquish1792
smallpox1793
shell-sicknessc1794
sickness1794
grass-ill1795
rub1800
pine1804
pining1804
sheep-pock1804
stinking ill1807
water sickness1807
core1818
wryneck1819
tag-belt1826
tag-sore1828
kibe1830
agalaxia1894
agalactia1897
lupinosis1899
trembling1902
struck1903
black disease1906
scrapie1910
renguerra1917
pulpy kidney1927
dopiness1932
blowfly strike1933
body strike1934
sleepy sickness1937
swayback1938
twin lamb disease1945
tick pyaemia1946
fly-strike1950
maedi1952
nematodiriasis1957
visna1957
maedi-visna1972
visna-maedi1972
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry i. vi. 71 The red water is a poysonous disease in sheepe, offending the heart.
1670 J. Smith England's Improvem. Reviv'd v. 170 Besides these several Rots, Sheep are incident to..Lung-sick, Maggots, Redwater, Fever, Scab or Itch.
1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) Red-water... This is also a Distemper in Sheep which is Cured by letting them blood in the foot.
1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep ii. iii. 167 The Red-water is an internal Disease that is hardly to be accounted for.
1807 Trans. Highl. Soc. 3 428 Redwater..consists in an inflammation of the skin, that raises it into blisters, which contain a thin, reddish, and watery fluid.
1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. 847/1 Redwater. This term does not denote the same disease as in cattle, in which it signifies a discharge of dark-coloured urine. In sheep it consists of an effusion of red serum, or water, in the abdomen outside the bowels.
1887 Parkes' Man. Hygiene (ed. 7) ix. 258 The sheep, of course, may suffer from acute lung infection, scouring, red water (hæmaturia), and many other diseases.
1890 J. H. Steel Dis. Sheep vii. 180 Probably conditions of highly nitrogenous urine giving rise to colour apparently red, are the majority of cases described as ‘red water’.
1970 Black's Vet. Dict. (ed. 9) 127/2 Braxy... Synonyms: bradshot, bradsot, red-water of sheep, white-water, sheep-sickness, etc.
1983 W. B. Martin Dis. Sheep xlvii. 231 Brassica poisoning (kale anaemia, redwater).
2004 Anaerobe 10 243/1 ‘Bacillary hemoglobinuria’ or ‘redwater’..is primarily a disease of cattle, though it has also been reported in sheep.
c. Any of several diseases causing haematuria or haemoglobinuria in humans; esp. (chiefly South African) schistosomiasis. Frequently attributive.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of bowels or intestines > [noun] > infestation by parasites
wormc1000
vermes1728
invermination1808
helminthiasis1811
vermination1818
rishta1834
trichinosis1866
trichiniasis1867
filariasis1879
strongylosis1883
ankylostomiasis1887
tunnel-disease1887
ascariasis1888
taeniasis1896
hook-worm disease1902
Strongyloides1902
uncinariasis1902
tunnel-sickness1903
amœbiasis1905
redwater1906
schistosomiasis1906
paragonimiasis1907
strongyloidiasis1907
strongyloidosis1907
trichinelliasis1907
loaiasis1913
onchocercosis1918
trichuriasis1921
loa loa1923
hydatidosis1925
sparganosis1928
trichinellosis1958
1906 Educ. Gaz. 6 220 It appears that a very large proportion of the boys suffer from redwater as a result of bathing in the Buffalo River [in South Africa].
1957 Pietersburg (S. Afr.) Eng. Medium School Mag. Dec. 52 Bilharzia first originated in Egypt about 4,000 years ago, although people only started thinking about a cure in 1850, when nearly every child had the disease then known as ‘Red Water’.
1971 N.Z. Nursing Jrnl. 64 8 (title) Leptospirosis (red-water fever).
2003 Lancet 19 July 184/2 The obvious example of this focus is ‘red water’ disease—more still water means more snails, and, in many parts of the world, more Schistosoma haematobium.
2. A spring of iron-rich water. Now rare.
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the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun] > other types
acidulae1670
redwater1712
blow-well1799
sand boil1937
1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 273 I now proceed to the Acidulæ, or the Medicinal Springs... A Spring of this Kind is here commonly known by the Name of the Red-Well, or the Red-Water, the Iron Water.
1850 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 74 131 This spring is known in the country [sc. France] under the name of Red Water.
1906 Med. Press & Circular 21 Nov. 562/2 A vast number of ancient earthenware pipes brought water to the baths and fountains, probably from the spring of Hippocrates, and from the celebrated red water or iron spring.
3. A red juice derived from the bark of the tropical African tree Erythrophleum suaveolens, used, chiefly in West Africa, as an ordeal poison. Now historical.
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1732 Coll. Voy. & Trav. VI. 192/2 Their way of discovering any person suspected of thievery, or other villainy..is by making the person charg'd with the crime, for his justification, to drink a small quantity of the juice of a certain tree, which is reddish, and by them call'd red-water.
1753 N. Owen Jrnl. Slave-dealer (1930) 30 If they are found out they are obliged to drink a large quantity of poyson, comonly caled red watter, which soon puts an end to thier days.
1878 H. C. Lea Superstit. & Force (ed. 3) 222 Throughout a wide region of Western Africa, one of the most popular forms of ordeal is that of the red water, or ‘sassy-bark’.
1923 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 29 853 In a wide region of West Africa the ordeal of the red water or ‘sassy-bark’ is used.
1993 Jrnl. Relig. in Afr. 23 ii. 145 The ‘red-water’ ordeal involved the accused eating some rice or kola and then having to drink large quantities of water in which bark from the sasswood tree had been infused. If this caused him to vomit up the rice or kola, he was declared innocent.
4. Water made red (and often toxic) by pigmented plankton, esp. dinoflagellates. Cf. red tide n. at red adj. and n. Compounds 1f(c)(i).
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > discoloration by organisms
redwater1839
breaking (of the meres)1884
water blossom1884
water-bloom1887
algal bloom1938
bloom1939
red tide1942
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. 18 The line where the red and blue water joined was distinctly defined.
1856 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 4 264 Alphonse Albuquerque..saw, from the stern of his vessel, issuing from the strait, and expanding outside, a stream of red water, which flowed towards Aden.
1902 Amer. Naturalist 36 189 The ‘red water’ occurred for two hundred miles..along the coast, from the region of Santa Barbara to San Diego.
1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans xiv. 425 Not all red water is caused by dinoflagellates. The Red Sea received its name because of dense blooms of a nontoxic blue-green alga with large amounts of red pigment.

Compounds

redwater tree n. the tropical African tree Erythrophleum suaveolens (family Leguminosae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae) (cf. sense 3); also called sassy tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding poison > sassy-tree
gris-gris1734
redwater tree1818
sassy tree1851
1818 Monthly Rev. 86 300 Secondly, Cæsalpineæ, of which nineteen species are in the herbarium: one is the poisonous Red Water-tree, Erythrophleum.
1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 338 Mancone of the Portuguese, Bourane, Red-water Tree, Ordeal Bark, &c.
1998 Jrnl. Ethnopharmacol. 63 20/1 The judicial use of the red water tree was not always free from manipulation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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