| 单词 | silver thaw |
| 释义 | > as lemmassilver thaw silver thaw n. the phenomenon of rain freezing as it falls and forming a glassy coating on the ground, trees, etc.; (see also quot. 1867). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > fall of frost silver thaw1770 verglas1808 1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. 22 Dec. (1792) I. 73 There was a silver thaw in the morning, and it rained freely: very mild weather all the rest of the day. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 3 A phenomenon I have often seen in the woods of the transatlantic countries named above, where it is familiarly called silver-thaw. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 626 Silver-thaw, the term for ice falling in large flakes from the sails and rigging, consequent on a frost followed suddenly by a thaw. 1891 Standard 26 Dec. 3/3 A ‘silver thaw’ is the result of rain falling from a warmer current of air at some little distance above the earth. < as lemmas |
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