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单词 to wet down
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to wet down
11. to wet down, to damp (sails, paper, embers) with water.
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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.
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