单词 | water house |
释义 | water housen. 1. Originally: a building or room containing a source of water such as a spring or well. Later also: a building in which water is raised from a river or underground source, usually into a reservoir, then conveyed via pipes or conduits for domestic use. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water > building for water house1444 1444 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 102 (MED) Lectum plumarum..existentem in le waterhous chaumbre. 1575 W. Patten Cal. Script. f. 38v Bethara, Domus aquae. Putei: The water hoous, Or pits. 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket vi. 304 It draweth iuyce to it selfe, turneth it into blood, & by vaines serueth the body, as the water-house doth a Citie by pipes. 1681 T. Dineley Jrnl. Tour Ireland in Trans. Kilkenny Archæol. Soc. 2nd Ser. 4 105 A delightful Water house adjoining to the Bowling Green, which with an Engine of Curious Artifice by the help of one horse furnisheth all the offices of the Castle with that necessary Element. This Water house hath a pleasant Summer banqueting room. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 113 Water-houses or Conduit-heads for the reception of the public water. 1790 Act 30 Geo. III c. 21 §1 To make, erect, construct, repair, and maintain all such..Water Houses, Reservoirs,..Water Wheels..for raising, forcing, and conveying a sufficient Quantity of Water from the said River Wenson into..the said City [of Norwich]. 1814 Scots Mag. Sept. 688/2 The length of the pipes necessary to conduct the springs to the water-house, will be..1005 feet. 1869 H. P. M. Birkinbine Rep. Water Commissioners Harrisburg 17 A line of approximate levels was run from the water house, foot of North street, to the abandoned water power above Earley's mill. 1920 Frederick City Code & Ordinances 256 The Superintendent of Water Works shall frequently visit the drains, water houses, reservoirs,..and examine the same. 1970 E. Pearson Let. in Oregon Hist. Q. (1976) 76 21 There was no running water; it had to be carried in pails from the spring in the water house, about one hundred yards down hill from the house. 2004 M. Pelling in C. Rawcliffe et al. Norwich since 1550 v. 133 The Tombland waterhouse was condemned as a ‘filthy building’ in 1783, and was taken down in 1786. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] shipc725 beamOE boardOE bargea1300 steera1300 vessela1300 treea1382 loomc1400 man1473 ark1477 bottom1490 keela1547 riverboat1565 craft1578 pine1592 class1596 flood-bickerer1599 pitchboard1599 stern-bearer1599 wooden horse1599 wooden isle1603 water treader?1615 water house1616 watercraft1618 machine1637 prore1642 lightman1666 embarkation1690 bark1756 prowa1771 Mudian1813 bastiment1823 hooker1823 nymph1876 M.F.V.1948 1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie i. sig. B2v The thing by her commanded, is to see Douers dreadfull cliffe, passing in a pore waterhouse. 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. x. 43 There be more Cannowes in this towne than in all the whole Patent; every houshould having a water-house or two. a1804 A. Pirie Diss. Hebrew Roots (1807) 123 The Germans pronounced it bord, by which they also meant a house and a ship, which the Saxons called a water-house. 1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 178 The canal, coming to its last lock, began to discharge its water-houses on the Oise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1444 |
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