| 单词 | sluice-maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmassluice-maker C3. With agent-nouns, etc., as sluice-keeper, sluice-maker, sluice-master; also sluice-employing adj. ΚΠ a1725 Ld. Whitworth Acc. Russia in 1710 in Dodsley Fug. Pieces (1761) II. 214 Contrary to the Opinion of all the Ship-Carpenters and Sluice-makers. 1780 Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 622 Many sluice masters..are accustomed to shut their gates next the sea a little after half flood. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 142/1 Many self-acting sluices have been contrived..to save the expense of a sluice-keeper. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right II. xxvi. 265 The dams and water-races of the sluice-employing miner. < as lemmas |
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