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单词 woolwich
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Woolwichn.

Brit. /ˈwʊlɪdʒ/, /ˈwʊlɪtʃ/, U.S. /ˈwʊlˌwɪtʃ/
Etymology: < Woolwich, the name of a town in Greater London (formerly in Kent).
Used attributively, esp. to designate productions of the old dockyard and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, as Woolwich-gun, Woolwich-hulk.
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a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 770 The shrinking Bard..dreads a meeting worse than Woolwich hulks.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 472 Woolwich Gun, a gun rifled on the French system, with this modification, that the grooves are shallower, and have their corners rounded off.

Compounds

Woolwich-beds n. Geology (see quot. 1859).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > stratigraphic units > [noun] > tertiary or Cenozoic > Eocene > specific
plastic clay1811
calcaire silicieux1833
Woolwich-beds1859
coryphodon bed1895
1859 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms 375 Woolwich-beds, a name occasionally employed by English geologists to designate those beds of plastic and mottled clays, sands, and rolled flint-pebbles which lie between the ‘Thanet Sands’ and the ‘London Clay’.
Woolwich infant n. a jocular name given to a class of heavy guns.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > heavy piece
gun of position1858
Woolwich infant1871
1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. ii. 21 The 35-ton gun called the ‘Woolwich infant’, which is fed with 700 pound shot and 130 pounds of gunpowder at one mouthful.
1875 W. T. Vincent Warlike Woolwich 30 (note) The name of the ‘Woolwich Infant’..was suggested to the writer of these pages by Sergeant Major Adamson, of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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