单词 | wind-shock |
释义 | wind-shockn.ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > trees wind-shake1545 file1600 joint-ache1601 wind-shock1664 measles1674 hidebound1678 carcinoma1832 knot1845 cup-defect1875 cup-shake1875 beech disease1905 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xxx. 94 I have seen Wind-shock-timber so exquisitely closed, as not to be discerned where the defects were. 1679 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 3) xxvii. 143 The Wind-shock is a bruise, and shiver throughout the Tree. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 868/2. 1805 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) 37 One of them [sc. canoes] sunk, in which was the ammunition and my baggage; this was occasioned by what is called a wind-shock. 2. A shock or disturbance of equilibrium caused by a violent gust of wind. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blast or gust of > stroke or shock of blast-bob1582 wind-shock1913 1913 Daily News 7 Mar. 1 England must have got a bad windshock, and the machine [an aeroplane] fell like a stone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1664 |
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