| 单词 | water trompe |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater trompe water trompe n. now chiefly historical a piece of apparatus for producing a blast of air from the pressure generated by water falling down a pipe; = trompe n.2 ΚΠ 1869 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 87 192 Perhaps the water tromp for obtaining a blast by the fall of water or the atomizer may be made available. 1915 J. P. Arthur Hist. Watauga County, N. Carolina xvi. 265 Here they put in a regular forge with all the equipment used in that day, including the water trompe, furnace, goose-nest, hammer, etc. 1994 R. Morgan Hinterlands i. 20 Daddy had set up a water trompe to blow air into the forge, and you could hear water pouring down the shaft from the trough. < as lemmas |
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