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单词 the wash
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the Wash
a. A sandbank or tract of land alternately covered and exposed by the sea; a portion of an estuary admitting of being forded or crossed on foot at low tide. †the Washes, applied spec. to the fordable portion of the estuary between Lincolnshire and Norfolk; hence used as a name for the estuary itself, now called the Wash.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > covered by sea
washc1440
sea-common1584
salting1712
inksa1740
tide-land1787
sea-grounds1826
salting-mound1908
shore1919
tide-water1949
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > mouth or outfall > specific
the Washesa1548
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 517/2 Wasche, watur or forde [v.r. forth], vadum.
a1548 E. Hall Chron.: Edward VI 208 b King Edward..with all hast possible passed the wasshes..& came to the toune of Lynne.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. iii. xxvi. 71 As for the coast of Illyricum, it is pestred with more than a thousand [islands]; such is the nature of the sea, full of shelves and washes, with narrow chanels running betweene.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Passade The swift course of the flowing, and ebbing of the sea, on the Sandes, or Washes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. vi. 42 Halfe my power this night..are taken by the Tide, These Lincolne-Washes haue deuoured them. View more context for this quotation
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 140 Upon the bay which Ptolomy names, Æstuariam Metaris, vulgarly called, the Washes, lieth the large Towne of Linne.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) V. 312 A washing begun in Baptisme,..Not such a washing, as the Washes have, which are those sands that are overflowed with the Sea at every Tide, and then lie dry.
1641 W. Prynne New Discov. Prelates Tyranny ii. 93 Hee departed out of Chester..his friends conducted them over the washes which are dangerous.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II ccliii, in Poems (1878) III. 200 Mowbray, who had gone all the way along Vpon these Washes..Now to goe further, thought a Quick-sand sprung Might swallow him.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 1295 The washes, as in Lincolnshire; Æstuaria.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 119 There was no way now left, but that by the Washes into Lincolnshire.
1740 G. Lynn Let. 21 Apr. in Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) (1744) 41 689 An Easterly Breeze, which the Borderers on the Coast of Lincolnshire and Norfolk call Tide-weather, and may be occasioned by the Vapours arising from the Tides, which then cover a vast Wash of Sands in their Neighbourhood.
1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 289 The great bay or wash, which forms the sole receptacle for the drainage waters, is so shallow.
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