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单词 water ditch
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water ditch
b. Designating a source of water or other facility for the storage or distribution of water in large quantities, as water ditch, water station, water well, etc. See also water pit n.
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OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) ii. v. §1. 312 Hæðenscipe byð, þæt..man weorþige hæðene godas & sunnan oððe monan, fyr oððe flod, wæterwyllas oððe stanas.
OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) iv. 118 Þa wæs þær on oþre sidan þæs hlawas gedolfen swylce mycel wæterseað wære; on þam seaðe ufan se eadiga wer Guthlac him hus getimbrode.
1301 in W. Boys Coll. Hist. Sandwich (1792) 538 Sciendum est eciam, quod aqua communis, que vocatur waterdelf..est tocius communitatis.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Josh. xviii. C The south border is from Kiriath-Iearim forth, and goeth out towarde the west, and commeth forth vnto ye water well of Nepthoah.
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 27 Water Gladiole groweth in standing pooles, motes, and water ditches.
a1609 F. Vere Commentaries (1657) 124 This field I entrenched taking the water-ditch to advantage.
1735 in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. (N.S.) 20 172 Taking water for the use of their families out of the water ditch in the said meadow.
1840 H. S. Tanner Canals & Rail Roads U.S. 263 Water stations, places where locomotives obtain their supplies of water.
1921 Rev. of Reviews Aug. 157/2 Hardships of desert travelling, when great gulfs of distance lie between one water well and another.
1992 K. S. Robinson Red Mars vii. 418 The water station north of town had gone up in an explosion.
2012 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Mar. 13/4 How much damage is being done to water wells..from methane migration and the chemicals mixed with water and then injected into fracking wells under high pressure?
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