单词 | brick pond |
释义 | brick pondn. A pond that has formed in a pit dug to quarry clay for bricks. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pond > [noun] > other brick pond1735 sag pond1933 1735 A. Boyer Polit. State Great Brit. Aug. 138 He prevented the Mob from endeavouring to cool her Frenzy in a neighbouring Brick-pond. 1837 Trans. Philos. & Literary Soc. Leeds 1 119 The pond..was originally one of those excavations in a bed of clay popularly known in this district as a ‘brick-pond’. 1887 Times (Philadelphia) 13 Nov. 5/5 The one-story, single-roomed shanty..out in the bleak fields, among brick ponds and clay banks. 1922 E. W. Wade in T. Sheppard Handbk. Hull 337 Almost every reed bed and brickpond in our old fen land..contains numerous Reed Warblers, Sedge Warblers and Reed Buntings. 1962 N. DuMond Thumb Diggings vi. 120 The ‘old brick ponds’ bordered Harrington Road long after the making of bricks was discontinued. 2009 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. (Nexis) 30 Dec. 4 The brick ponds, where much of the area's clay is cultivated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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