| 单词 | skookum chuck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasskookum chuck skookum chuck n. [chuck n.6] a fast-moving body of water, a torrent, rapids; an ocean. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > torrent floodc1275 floodgatea1425 waterfall1578 torrent1609 torrent-stream1728 rattle1770 lavant1774 fiumara1820 torrent-flood1825 skookum chuck1888 1888 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck B.C. 1887: Ramble in Brit. Columbia xvii. 184 We arranged to meet at the Skookumchuck Creek (‘the stream of the rapid torrent’). 1899 Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. 1898 18 73 The passage is a ‘skookum chuck’, through which the water runs in whirls and rapids almost constantly and with great velocity. 1911 E. P. Johnson Legends of Vancouver 47 You have listened to the call of the Skookum Chuck, as the Chinook speakers call the rollicking, tumbling streams that sing their way through the canyons. 1940 K. S. Pinkerton Three's Crew x. 102 A tidal rapids is a ‘skookum chuck’. 1959 Times 18 June (Queen in Canada Suppl.) p. xii/1 This is the salt chuck, the skookum chuck..in fact the Pacific. < as lemmas |
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