单词 | water-bow |
释义 | water-bown. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > guns discharging water water-bow1632 water cannon1891 water pistol1897 1632 T. Grent Brit. Patent 59 (1857) 1 A water bowe, being a manuall instrument made very serviceable for divers vses, especially for the more speedie preservacion of houses vpon the land and shipps vppon the sea from suddaine fire. 2. poetic. a. A rainbow. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > chromatism > [noun] > rainbow rainbowc1384 iris1490 water-bow1827 1827 G. Darley Sylvia 16 With their varied colours blending Hues to shame the water-bow. 1948 E. Warner New Song in Strange Land iv. 62 Then a ‘water-bow’ arches across the sky. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > fountain > [noun] > jet or spout waterspout1607 jettoa1660 girandolac1660 jet d'eau1669 gerbe1699 jetteau1710 grille1712 spirt1716 water jet1727 spurt1775 girandole1813 spring1818 water-bow1855 sea-spout1867 the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > like an arch or bow > thing of the form of an arch or bow yokec1155 archa1592 arc1642 instep1681 water-bow1855 outspan1887 1855 R. Browning Cleon 252 They praise a fountain in my garden here Wherein a Naiad sends the water-bow Thin from her tube. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1632 |
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