| 单词 | road washing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad washing road washing n. (a) (usually in plural) material washed from the surface of a road; (b) the action or process of washing a road (frequently attributive). Π 1845 Cultivator 2 259/2 Where the materials which streams deposit, consist of road-washings..they constitute frequently a compost of the richest kind. 1856 Engineers & Officials (General Board of Health) ix. 193 An open reservoir..has been provided for sewer flushing, street and road washing, and other similar purposes. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 783 Of other places it is said that natural filtration of the road-washings has been economically effected. 1995 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 8 Mar. b3 Road washing and landscaping, together with improved street cleaning practices by the city. 2002 North Shore (Brit. Columbia) News (Nexis) 30 Jan. 11 A large percentage of our rainfall goes to the pavement, then the storm drain and quickly to the streams, taking with it all the road washings. < as lemmas |
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