| 单词 | scoop-out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscoop-out a. A place scooped or hollowed out; also, a natural concavity or hollow resembling this; rarely, an artificial basin for water. Also scoop-out. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] dalea800 piteOE dike847 hollowc897 hole946 seathc950 delfOE hollc1050 ditchc1275 lakec1320 holetc1380 slacka1500 dell1531 vault1535 pit-hole1583 delve1590 lough1672 sinusa1676 gap1696 self-lough1700 scoop1780 cup1819 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > for fluid > sunk or indented sump1680 well1848 scoop1871 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. vii. 138 He felt the delicious contrast of hill and valley changing imperceptibly into each other, tasted the beauty of the gentle swell, or concave scoop. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel l. 115 Here a knoll and there a scoop. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Dante at Verona in Poems xxviii The conduits round the gardens sing And meet in scoops of milk-white stone. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. ii. 21 All foot and horse tracks made previous to the storm had been abraded and blurred by the drops, and they were now so many little scoops of water. 1884 Milit. Engineering ii. 33 Most of the pieces would be fired through countersloping scoops. 1900 Daily News 1 June 3/1 Lying in a shallow scoop-out among the hills. < as lemmas |
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