| 单词 | watergang | 
| 释义 | watergangn. 1.  An artificial watercourse such as a drainage channel or mill-race. Also occasionally: the course of a river or stream. Now archaic.Esp. with reference to drainage systems in low-lying areas of Britain and northern Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > 			[noun]		 > channel for conveyance of water water leatOE water lade1224 leat1279 watergang1293 sow1316 trough1398 wissinga1400 lanec1420 waterway1431 water leasow1440 watercoursea1450 fleam1523 lead1541 cut1548 aqueducta1552 lake1559 strand1565 race1570 channel1581 watergauge1597 gout1598 server1610 carriage1669 runnel1669 aquage1706 shoot1707 tewel1725 run1761 penstock1763 hulve1764 way-gang1766 culvert1774 flume1784 shute1790 pentrough1793 raceway1793 water carriage1793 carrier1794 conductor1796 water carrier1827 penchute1875 chute1878 by-cut1883 1293    in  Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. 		(1893)	 12 303  				[Arable land..stretching from] le Watergang [which enters] Swanmar [to the south]. 1395    in  W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham 		(1882)	 I. 274 (MED)  				Item, dicunt quod Nicholaus Fossebrok, Nicholaus Webster, Petrus Sadeler, et omnes tenentes Willelmi de Bradebiri cariant et jactant fimum ad le Frere Watergang, per quod cursus aquae perditus est. 1434    in  Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 		(2007)	 1434/4  				That the breif underwrittyn haf courss quhil the next parliament alanerly of watter gangis, that is to say of myln laidis and of nane uthir thingis. 1509    in  J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum 		(1882)	 II. 702/2  				Le Wattirgang, aque sive torrentis de Grenelaw. 1509    in  J. B. Paul Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum 		(1882)	 II. 703/1  				Le Wattirgang dict. molendini. 1589    Protocol Bk. A. Gibson 		(Edinb. Reg. House)	 f. 68v, in  Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Wattirgang  				The wattergang or myll laid of the said commoun mylnis. 1601    Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 391/2  				Passand south up the auld rin or watergang of the Teillburne. 1675    Crown Office Writs 24 Jan. in  Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Wattirgang  				The myln of Pardovein myln landis..watter gange and all thair pertinentis. 1754    T. Gardner Hist. Acct. Dunwich 96  				In the year 1740 the men of Dunwich were digging a Trench near their Old-Port, cross the Beach, to make a Watergang to drain their Marshes. 1795    C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. II. Addenda 734/1  				Others are made for draining wet and marshy lands; which last however are more properly called water-gangs, drains, ditches, &c. 1814    Session Papers, Abstr. of Proof conc. Mill of Inveramsay in  J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. 		(1825)	 at Water-corn  				1 boll of water-corn..yearly, for each of the said three ploughs, for manufacturing and upholding the dams and water-gangs. 1866    C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xix. 349  				He rode slowly..past the cross-ways, and along the water-gang, and the high earth-banks of his ancient home. 1904    Windmills in Foreign Countries (Special Consular Rep. XXXI, U.S. Dept. of Commerce & Labor) 188  				A network of side canals or water gangs, which have an outlet into navigable canals, through which the fullness of water is sent to the sea. 1994    Times 		(Nexis)	 6 May  				The aristocratic little town of St Omer, with some 300 kilometres of ‘watergangs’ draining its marshlands. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > 			[noun]		 streamc950 water floodOE floodc1000 waterOE diluvya1325 waterganga1325 flowinga1340 delugec1374 diluvec1386 Noah's floodc1390 overflowing1430 inundation1432 flowa1450 surrounding1449 over-drowninga1500 spate1513 float1523 drowning1539 ravine1545 alluvion1550 surundacion1552 watershot1567 overflow1589 ravage1611 inunding1628 surroundera1642 water breach1669 flooding1799 debacle1802 diluviation1816 deluging1824 superflux1830 whelm1842 come1862 floodage1862 sheet-flood1897 flash flooding1939 flash-flood1940 a1325						 (c1250)						    Gen. & Exod. 		(1968)	 l. 662  				Nembrot gat hise feres red, For ðat he hadde of water dred, To maken a tur wel heg & strong Of tigel and ter for water-gong. ΚΠ 1681    J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl.  i. xvii. §12. 345  				A Watergang is a Servitude, of conveying Water thorow the servient Ground for the use of the Dominant. 1876    Jrnl. Jurispr. 20 316  				In this case there is no servient and no dominant tenement, and therefore no ground for holding that there is here a servitude of water gang. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < | 
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