单词 | trench-like |
释义 | > as lemmastrench-like trench-like adj. resembling a trench. ΚΠ 1801 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 704/1 A trench-like appearance. 1855 Huddersfield Chron. 20 Oct. 5/1 In the trench-like excavation now going on for the new sewer in Cloth-hall street, the workmen have turned out a considerable quantity of fossilised timber. 1908 Geogr. Jrnl. 31 148 The gorge..is remarkably trench-like and regular... Its width from crest to crest, if my measurement with a range-finder be trustworthy, is approximately 40 yards. 1957 New Scientist 7 Nov. 16 Criss-crossing the lunar surface there are alignments of mountains, valleys and trench-like formations called rilles. 2003 New Yorker 16 June 140/3 Every morning, the janitor dug a trenchlike path in the snow from the gate to the school. < as lemmas |
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