单词 | water-dam |
释义 | > as lemmaswater-dam (a) Designating a channel in which water runs, or any structure or device for facilitating or controlling its flow, as water channel, water-dam, water valve, etc. See also water cock n. 1, watercourse n., water-furrow n., etc. ΚΠ eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 27/2 Canalibus, waeterðruum. OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 186 Aquę ductuum : canalium, tiga, wætertige. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11942 Þe water wissing can he ditt, þat water to þe lak broght. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 42 Thay lay in the furdes and waterdames. 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Phormio iv. iv, in Terence in Eng. 432 A snake fel from the tyles through the water gutter. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 113 So soone as the said water-conduct was deriued vnto the Towne, he caused it to be diuided. 1610 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 200 Tho. Skarth of Carlton in Cleveland, theldest, [presented] for stopping of the water-sewer upon the West Shortflatt. 1658 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour xxxi. 95 The water-squirt, which will throw a whole hogs-head of water to the top of an house at once. 1762 Def. United Co. Merchants Eng. against Complaints Dutch E.-India Co. 62/2 The Way between the said Fort and the great Water Channel situated on the South, is about the Distance of a large Cannon Shot. 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 234 To bestow a watering on my fields, by means of water-trunks, immediately after my first crop of hay is got off. 1862 E. Hodder Mem. N.Z. Life 117 We were glad to..lie down closely together in one of the dry water-cuttings. 1902 C. J. Cornish Naturalist on Thames 9 Down every ditch, runnel, and water-cut, the turbid waters were hurrying. 1936 V. C. Smith tr. W. Röpke Crises & Cycles iv. 88 It makes really no difference whether the unused capacity..is used for slum-clearance at home or for building a water-dam in Tibet. 1979 N. Wallington Fireman! x. 119 At the beginning of the seventeenth century..hand-held water squirts first appeared. 1990 W. A. Livesey GCSE Motor Vehicle Stud. vi. 59/1 The thermostat is a temperature-operated water valve. It is fitted between the top of the engine and the top hose. 2003 Archaeology Jan. 26/2 A route of collapsed water channels and ruined bridges that snakes some 150 miles from the western Turkish city of Vize to Istanbul. < as lemmas |
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