| 单词 | warping up |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswarping up a. The process of flooding low-lying land near a tidal river so that the muddy alluvium may be deposited when the water is withdrawn. Also warping up, the process of filling up hollows by deposit of alluvium. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > irrigation > [noun] field pondage1612 pondage1612 irrigation1626 floating-trench1649 masterwork1652 floating1669 catchwork1794 warping1799 watering1799 basin irrigation1903 sprinkler irrigation1908 sprinkling irrigation1910 spray irrigation1931 spray line1961 trickle irrigation1969 chemigation1981 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [phrase] > filling up hollows by deposit of alluvium warping up1839 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 284 It is not by the canal that the warping is done, but by a soakage drain on each side of it. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 307 By repeating this operation, which is called ‘warping,’ for two or three years, considerable tracts have been raised, in the estuary of the Humber, to the height of about six feet. 1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 450/1 It was found necessary to encourage the warping up of the old floor pits, by introducing fascine jetty work, which greatly accelerated the deposit of the sea warp. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) II. 171/2 Warping gives an entirely new surface to soil. It may be best explained as a process by which the suspended mud which occurs in certain rivers is allowed to deposit itself upon a prescribed area of land. < as lemmas |
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