单词 | campshedding |
释义 | campsheddingcampsheetingn. Collective form of campshed n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > a surfacing or cladding > of hard material > protecting an embankment campshed1471 revetment1747 campshedding1819 revêtement1838 1819 A. Rees Cycl. VI Camp sheeting, camp shot, or campstead, in inland navigation denotes a facing of piles and planks in the front of banks or wharfs, to prevent the banks being worn away. 1858 C. Kingsley Chalk-stream Stud. in Misc. (1860) I. 182 There is a campshutting (a boarding in English) upon which you can put your elbows. 1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe III. xiii. 201 The old gentleman..moved slowly down along the camp-shuting... Then the lad..slipped over the camp-shooting (will anybody tell me how to spell that word? Camps-heading won't do, my dear sir, all things considered). 1865 Bazalgette Metropol. Drainage 25 A channel is cut in the bed of the river..the sides protected by campsheathing. 1872 H. W. Taunt Map of Thames 13 The old weir, with its broken campsheding. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1819 |
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