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单词 stream-bank
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stream-bank
C1. Simple attributive, as stream-bank, stream-bed, stream-gravel, stream-ground, stream-head, stream-name, stream-side, stream-water.
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c1619 S. Atkinson Discov. Gold Mynes Scotl. (1825) 15 To frame or make a long sowgh, or scowring place, into which they bringe the streame water.
c1630 J. Milton Let. in Birch Wks. (1738) I. Life p. v And here I am come to a streame-head, copious enough to disburden itselfe like Nilus at seven Mouthes into an Ocean.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 134 The additional trouble of removing back the soil in heaps, and levelling the Stream ground to receive it, is so little.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad v. 169 The sandy streambank and the woodgreen plain.
1844 E. B. Barrett Romance of Swan's Nest in Poems II. 254 Little Ellie sits alone..By a stream-side, on the grass.
1857 M. Arnold Rugby Chapel 95 The stream-bed descends In the place where the wayfarer once Planted his footstep.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 410 That day he needs must leave the stream~side road.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xi. 152 A coarse low fern on stream-gravel.
1901 Q. Rev. July 22 The country [Uganda] is almost like a succession of gigantic furrows, and in nearly every furrow there is a ‘sponge’, swamp, or stream-head.
1922 E. Ekwall Place-names Lancs. 25 It might be an old stream-name..and might have given name to the forest.
1960 P. H. Reaney Orig. Eng. Place-names v. 81 It is also possible that this (and other names) may contain a stream-name ec(c)les, as in Ecchinswell.
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