| 单词 | salt flat |
| 释义 | > as lemmassalt flat c. Of tracts of land, marshes: Flooded by the sea. (See also salt marsh n.) Of rocks, ground: Having salt mixed with the earth; (in biblical use) barren. salt flat, a flat expanse of land covered with a layer of salt; salt meadow (chiefly North American), a meadow liable to be flooded by salt water. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] > salt-marsh salt1279 salt marsh1937 the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [adjective] > flooded by sea salt1279 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > infertile unbearingc825 geasonOE unkindc1330 barren1377 unfructuousa1382 poora1387 leanc1420 exile?1440 salt1535 unfruitful?1542 sterile1572 dead1577 unlusty1580 queasy1593 heartless1594 unfertile1596 emacerated1610 sapless1655 unprolific1672 uncivil1676 ungrateful1681 worn1681 teemless1687 unproductive1725 poorish1767 ill-conditioned1796 scanty1797 rammelly1808 starve-acre1891 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > meadow land > meadow > water-meadow wish898 ing1483 salt meadow1656 water meadow1719 water-meada1722 flow-meadow1834 pré salé1903 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [adjective] > mineral soils keely1712 salt1813 lateritic1836 halomorphic1938 the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain > types of sand-flat1773 alluvial plain1803 sand-plain1818 sandveld1824 tundra1841 bench-land1845 salt flat1873 panfan1915 panplain1933 pediplain1935 soda plain1946 1279 in W. Greenwell Feodarium Prioratus Dunelmensis (1872) 110 (note) Cum toto prato quod vocatur Saltmedus. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xvii. 5 In a salt and vnoccupied londe. 1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxix. 6 Whose house I haue made the wildernesse, and the barren lande [margin. Hebr. salt places] his dwellings. View more context for this quotation 1656 New Haven (Connecticut) Town Rec. (1917) I. 288 It was don..by the cattell hurrying downe in to ye salt meddows. 1670 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1893) III. 174 A certaine peece of meadow..being part of it salt meadow and part of it fresh meadow. 1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 46 They March'd..until they came unto the Salt Meadow. 1722 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1901) XVI. 204 The South side of the Channel neere against my salt meadow called four stack meadow. 1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 287 There are large bodies of salt meadow along the Delaware. 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. vii. 295 Virgil reprobates a salt soil. 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul Introd. 80 The range of salt hills. 1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. xix Sea-mud, salt-sand,..and river-sludge. 1839 Knickerbocker Mag. 13 503 He travelled very comfortably over the salt meadows. 1873 J. L. Crawford in D. Eagan 6th Ann. Rep. Commissioner of Lands, Florida (1874) 97 Hundreds of salt-works were erected upon the ‘salt-flats’ along the sea-shore within the limits of Wakulla. 1881 Harper's Mag. Jan. 254/2 The sluggish river winds through tracts of salt-meadow. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 231/2 The great salt range of the Punjab. 1931 Amer. Speech 7 5 Sometimes the hunter found that he could make his best ‘killings’ at the ‘salt licks’ or ‘salt flats’ frequented by the buffalos. 1952 E. F. Davies Illyrian Venture i. 20 Why was the plain white? Was it snow? No, it looked more like salt flats. 1966 T. H. Raddall Hangman's Beach iii. xix. 286 A fringe of farms and salt meadows along the shore. 1972 Guinness Bk. Records (ed. 19) 128/2 The highest speed attained by any wheeled land vehicle is 631·368 m.p.h...on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, on 23 Oct. 1970... The highest speed attained by a wheel-driven car is 429· 311 m.p.h...on the salt flats at Lake Eyre, South Australia, on 17 July 1964. < as lemmas |
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