单词 | rilling |
释义 | rillingn. 1. a. The formation of a rill or rills.Apparently rare before late 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > wet place, mire, or slough sloughc900 mooreOE letch1138 mire1219 sougha1300 dew1377 slop?a1400 flashc1440 slothc1440 slonk1488 slot?a1500 rilling1610 slab1610 water-gall1657 slunkc1700 slack1719 mudhole1721 bog-hole1788 spew1794 wetness1805 stabble1821 slob1836 sludge1839 soak1839 mudbath1856 squire-trap1859 loblolly1865 glue-pot1892 swelter1894 poaching1920 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] dikingc1000 ditchingc1380 voidance1398 water-furrowing1398 avoidinga1513 rilling1610 dikage1634 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > seed-furrow or drill seed furrow?1530 rigol1599 rilling1610 cornhole1655 rill1658 drill1727 seed seam1775 seam1799 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > rill > formation rilling1610 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. ii. 50 Dyking, drayning,..rilling, brooking, riuaging, foording. 1898 J. S. Diller Educ. Series Rock Specimens U.S. Geol. Surv. 388 The flutings..may be referred to the rilling of the water on the surface of the limestone. 1935 Ecology 16 357 This [damage] begins with increased runoff and the accelerated removal of litter and humus, passes into rilling and gullying,..and ends in the sealing of gravel basins. 1978 W. W. Emmett in M. J. Kirkby Hillslope Hydrol. v. 171 Rilling is generally considered to be evidence of more accelerated erosion than sheet erosion. 2003 Trans. Inst. Brit. Geographers 28 181/1 Agricultural vehicles produce compacted wheel-tracks in which rilling is often initiated. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > ditch dikec893 gripa1000 ditch1045 fosselOE water-furrowlOE sow1316 furrowc1330 rick1332 sewer1402 gripplec1440 soughc1440 grindle1463 sheugh1513 syre1513 rain?1523 trench1523 slough1532 drain1552 fowsie?1553 thorougha1555 rean1591 potting1592 trink1592 syver1606 graft1644 work1649 by-ditch1650 water fence1651 master drain1652 rode1662 pudge1671 gripe1673 sulcus1676 rhine1698 rilling1725 mine1743 foot trench1765 through1777 trench drain1779 trenchlet1782 sunk fence1786 float1790 foot drain1795 tail-drain1805 flow-dike1812 groopa1825 holla1825 thorough drain1824 yawner1832 acequia madre1835 drove1844 leader1844 furrow-drain1858 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Springs Smaller Fowl..that uses to feed in wet..Grounds, and amongst Water Furrows, or Rillings. 2. Babbling or tinkling, as of a flowing rill; an instance of this. rare. ΚΠ 1855 Graham's Mag. Aug. 161/1 The cool brooks stray Into melodious rillings of sweet sound. 1863 S. T. Hall Days in Derbyshire xxi. 208 I sought the sources of the river Dove..and went down, companion of its early rillings and murmurings, by the feet of Pikeous Hill and Croom. 1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty i. 12 Valleys vocal with angelic rilling of rocky streams. 3. Archaeology. The fact of being marked with close-set parallel grooves; marking of this kind, esp. on pottery. Cf. rilled adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [noun] > relief or incised decoration bianco sopra bianco1856 pâte-sur-pâte1879 scratched blue1883 sprigging1906 rilling1923 scratch blue1924 stab-and-drag1931 rouletting1937 1923 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 13 122 The rilling is absent or nearly so. 1940 C. F. C. Hawkes Prehist. Found. Europe iv. 98 There are straight or curving bands of rilling. 1976 Britannia 7 166 The parallel rilling, most often seen on the mouldings of column-bases. 2005 Hesperia 74 470 This piece may have been wheel-made, although the possible rilling is too heavily worn to be certain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rillingadj. That streams or trickles like a rill. Also: resembling or reminiscent of the sound of a flowing rill; tinkling, babbling. ΚΠ 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. xi. 40 The grauelly colde of rilling fountaines. 1712 J. Hughes Calypso & Telemachus i. i. 2 For thee the rilling Waters weep, That dash from Rocks, or softly creep, In Murmurs to the Sea. a1743 S. Say Poems Several Occasions (1745) 48 The rilling Brook, that murmurs by, Shall lull my Thoughts. 1831 Royal Lady's Mag. Dec. 364/1 A velvet coat of vivid moss, and creepers..under which is heard at intervals the subterranean sound of rilling water. a1844 F. Baily Jrnl. Tour N. Amer. (1856) 260 Vortices, which..cause a rilling, murmuring sound. 1908 New Eng. Mag. Aug. 748/2 Lichens and ferns rose rank and green beside the rilling stream. 1979 D. W. Jones Spellcoats (2003) vi. 73 There was a rilling, splashing noise outside. 2001 A. Smith In This we are Native (2004) i. 13 Children played in the rilling waters while the rest of us found refuge from the August heat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1610adj.1610 |
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