单词 | stick dam |
释义 | > as lemmasstick dam stick dam n. a dam built of sticks, esp. one constructed by beavers. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > dam > dam made by beavers beaver-dam1638 stint1792 stick dam1868 1868 All Year Round 1 Aug. 179/2 On a stream issuing from Lake Diamond, a stick dam is to be seen two hundred and sixty feet ten inches long, and two inches high. 1884 Evangelical Mag. May 214 The other kind of [beaver's] dam is the ‘stick-dam’, consisting of sticks and poles. 1946 Amer. Anthropologist 48 608 Remnants of the old stick-dam which Jochelson photographed in 1912 still remained in 1937. 2009 Bangor (Maine) Daily News (Nexis) 23 Nov. c6 All I heard for some moments was water trickling out through the stick dam and across rocks into the gulley. < as lemmas |
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