| 单词 | water-mead |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater-mead water-mead n. now rare (chiefly literary in later use) = water meadow n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > meadow land > meadow > water-meadow wish898 ing1483 salt meadow1656 water meadow1719 water-meada1722 flow-meadow1834 pré salé1903 a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 303 A great burden of hay and grass there was in North-Wiltshire, unless in the water-meads, where they were stranded. 1840 T. A. Trollope Summer in Brittany I. 381 A pretty walk along the valley, which is occupied by a succession of water-meads. 1862 Once a Week 19 July 106/2 The fine old city of Winton..lies hidden in the valley, surrounded with its breezy downs and laced with silvery water-meads. 1914 H. P. Eden Bread & Circuses 71 The chalky scaurs of Compton hold the shadows; and between Lie the water-meads of Mottisfont. < as lemmas |
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