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

4. Caribbean. In Guyana: either of two dams forming the side boundaries of an estate or plantation; (also) a trench dug to build such a dam, used for drainage. Also more fully sideline dam, sideline trench, etc.

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1824 in J. Bryant Acct. Insurrection Negro Slaves Demerara 27 He..observed a plank across the trench, a little above the buildings; marched up the side-line in file, with design to pass over it, but it was hauled in by some negroes concealed in the cotton-piece.

1850 ‘B. Premium’ Eight Years in Brit. Guiana 15 At the embouchure of those sideline trenches, a sluice or koker..is erected.

1855 H. G. Dalton Hist. Brit. Guiana II. 508 They care not for back or front dams to keep off the water; their side-lines are disregarded, and consequently the drainage is gone.

1876 Sugar Cane 8 411 These drains..issue into what is called a side line or main draining canal. The water from this side line..is discharged through a koker.

1917 Louisiana Planter 21 Apr. 253/2 Immediately adjacent to the side-line dams [in Dutch Guiana], run the two main draining trenches.

1974 M. A. Rauf Indian Village in Guyana 72 Water is drained out by another ‘khokha’..to a side line (drainage canal) which carries the water out to the river.

2010 Combat (Guyana Agricultural & General Workers Union) 31 2/2 The estate did not effectively utilize the excavators on hand to dredge side-lines and facades.

单词	sideline trench
释义	> as lemmas sideline trench 4. Caribbean. In Guyana: either of two dams forming the side boundaries of an estate or plantation; (also) a trench dug to build such a dam, used for drainage. Also more fully sideline dam, sideline trench, etc. ΚΠ 1824 in J. Bryant Acct. Insurrection Negro Slaves Demerara 27 He..observed a plank across the trench, a little above the buildings; marched up the side-line in file, with design to pass over it, but it was hauled in by some negroes concealed in the cotton-piece. 1850 ‘B. Premium’ Eight Years in Brit. Guiana 15 At the embouchure of those sideline trenches, a sluice or koker..is erected. 1855 H. G. Dalton Hist. Brit. Guiana II. 508 They care not for back or front dams to keep off the water; their side-lines are disregarded, and consequently the drainage is gone. 1876 Sugar Cane 8 411 These drains..issue into what is called a side line or main draining canal. The water from this side line..is discharged through a koker. 1917 Louisiana Planter 21 Apr. 253/2 Immediately adjacent to the side-line dams [in Dutch Guiana], run the two main draining trenches. 1974 M. A. Rauf Indian Village in Guyana 72 Water is drained out by another ‘khokha’..to a side line (drainage canal) which carries the water out to the river. 2010 Combat (Guyana Agricultural & General Workers Union) 31 2/2 The estate did not effectively utilize the excavators on hand to dredge side-lines and facades. extracted from sidelinen. < as lemmas
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