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单词 water donkey
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water donkey
p. Designating a vehicle used to carry or transport water, as water boat, water tanker, water tender, water truck, etc., or an animal used for this purpose, as water donkey, water mule. See also water ship n. at Compounds 7.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge > other types of barge
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water1727
brick barge1738
tent-barge1796
water barge1798
passage-barge1804
steam barge1812
schooner barge1819
tongkang1834
bumbarge1839
Tom Pudding1880
grain-barge1902
butty1923
support barge1967
reel barge1972
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xxviii. 346 He built some Water Boats,..and, by these Boats furnished the Garison with good Water.
1847 Mechanics' Mag. 18 Sept. 268/2 It is an engine which requires no water tender.
1875 H. W. Baxley Spain II. xxii. 7 Market-donkeys, water-donkeys, coal-donkeys, and carrier-donkeys of every description of over-burthened misery.
1898 Daily News 3 May 8/3 The baggage and water animals.
1900 Daily News 17 Mar. 7/4 Indians, with their plucky and clever little water-mules, were ordered right up into the firing line.
1907 Munic. Jrnl. & Engineer 20 Nov. 577/1 Arrangement is made..to draw fresh water from a water boat when sea water would be objectionable.
1918 2nd Ann. Rep. U.S. Shipping Board 143 The War Transport Branch..has contracted for the following concrete ships: Fourteen 130-foot river boats, five 100-foot water tankers, and twelve 225-foot car floats.
1919 W. P. Sullivan & H. Tucker Hist. 105th Regiment Engineers xii. 240/2 Canvas tanks are constructed..about three miles behind the front line, and these tanks are filled by water lorries.
1958 P. Scott Mark of Warrior ii. 122 The water truck rendezvoused. Most of the chaps' bottles were empty.
1978 Dumfries Courier 13 Oct. 17/4 Two water tenders from Dumfries brought the blaze under control.
2004 Independent 18 Dec. 18/2 We have five water tankers behind us and they can only go 30 miles an hour.
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