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

1. attributive. Originally Scottish and English regional (northern); in later use also Archaeology. Designating a drain or ditch filled with loose broken stones, esp. in rumble conduit (in form rummle-cundy) (now rare), rumble drain. Cf. rammel n.¹ 2.

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1812 J. Henderson Gen. View Agric. Caithness xii. 171 The expense of filling the rumble drain, may be valued at 1d per yard, where the stone is at hand.

1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 ii. 314 [He] drained at first with stones, these drains being what are termed Scottice rummle drains.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Rummle-cundy, rummlin-cundy, a drain or trench filled up to the surface with loose stones to admit of percolation.

1896 F. M. T. Palgrave List Words & Phrases Hetton-le-Hole Rummle cundy, a ditch filled up with loose stones, for water to drain through.

1911 J. Ward Romano-Brit. Buildings & Earthworks iii. 54 The split trunks and branches at the base of the Camelon rampart may have formed a rumble drain, to keep the earthy materials above dry.

1926 Sc. Jrnl. Agric. 9 187 The ‘rummle’ drain was of course soon superseded, first by a channel of built stones, later by horse-shoe tiles, and finally by circular tiles.

1943 H. Reid Reids of Kittochside 33 The land about Kittochside had become ‘soured’ and unproductive owing to the prevalence of under-surface water, when in 1773 John Reid introduced his system of ‘rummle’ drains.

1989 M. Fulford Silchester Amphitheatre v. i. 186 Drainage was initially primitive. A shallow gutter..was replaced with a new rumble-drain.

单词	rumble conduit
释义	> as lemmas rumble conduit 1. attributive. Originally Scottish and English regional (northern); in later use also Archaeology. Designating a drain or ditch filled with loose broken stones, esp. in rumble conduit (in form rummle-cundy) (now rare), rumble drain. Cf. rammel n.¹ 2. ΚΠ 1812 J. Henderson Gen. View Agric. Caithness xii. 171 The expense of filling the rumble drain, may be valued at 1d per yard, where the stone is at hand. 1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 ii. 314 [He] drained at first with stones, these drains being what are termed Scottice rummle drains. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Rummle-cundy, rummlin-cundy, a drain or trench filled up to the surface with loose stones to admit of percolation. 1896 F. M. T. Palgrave List Words & Phrases Hetton-le-Hole Rummle cundy, a ditch filled up with loose stones, for water to drain through. 1911 J. Ward Romano-Brit. Buildings & Earthworks iii. 54 The split trunks and branches at the base of the Camelon rampart may have formed a rumble drain, to keep the earthy materials above dry. 1926 Sc. Jrnl. Agric. 9 187 The ‘rummle’ drain was of course soon superseded, first by a channel of built stones, later by horse-shoe tiles, and finally by circular tiles. 1943 H. Reid Reids of Kittochside 33 The land about Kittochside had become ‘soured’ and unproductive owing to the prevalence of under-surface water, when in 1773 John Reid introduced his system of ‘rummle’ drains. 1989 M. Fulford Silchester Amphitheatre v. i. 186 Drainage was initially primitive. A shallow gutter..was replaced with a new rumble-drain. extracted from rumblen.² < as lemmas
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