| 单词 | tumbling-bay | 
| 释义 | > as lemmastumbling-bay   tumbling-bay  n.  Brit.  , U.S.   an outfall from a river, canal, or reservoir; a weir; also, the pool into which the water falls from this.ΘΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > 			[noun]		 > lasher lock pool1674 tumbling-bay1724 lasher1851 the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > 			[noun]		 > artificially confined water weirc897 dama1340 millpond1371 pound1535 pent1587 water-shut1613 tumbling-bay1724 backwater1788 pen pond1904 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > tributary > 			[noun]		 > outfall effluent1860 tumbling-bay1891 1724    Jrnl. House of Commons 20 382/1  				The water is to be divided by an over-fall or tumbling-bay. 1795    J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation 		(rev. ed.)	 Add. 90  				To preserve the water of the same river, a tumbling bay is to be erected. 1847    C. G. Addison Treat. Law Contracts 		(1883)	 ii. i. §1.  244  				The lessee of a water-mill..has no right to alter the height of the tumbling-bay. 1891    A. J. Foster Ouse 136  				A fine large ‘tumbling bay’, as the pools below the sluices are sometimes called. < as lemmas  | 
	
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