单词 | to wet down |
释义 | > as lemmasto wet down 11. to wet down, to damp (sails, paper, embers) with water. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being slightly wet > make slightly wet [verb (transitive)] > sails, paper, or embers to wet down1840 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iv. 25 We..continued wetting down the sails by buckets of water whipped up to the mast~head. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 155 Wetting down, the process of damping paper for printing purposes. 1891 Daily News 26 Sept. 2/5 Holland said that when he came on his watch there was no supply of coal in the bunkers, and that Jensen would not wet down his ashes. < as lemmas |
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