| 单词 | canal estate | 
| 释义 | > as lemmascanal estate   canal estate  n. 		 (a) (chiefly South Asian) a property, typically with a house, irrigated by a canal;		 (b) (chiefly Australian and U.S.) a housing development built along the edge of a canal, chiefly as a result of dredging of wetland. ΚΠ 1844    Colonial Gaz. 14 Dec. 772/2  				[The fire] appears to have reached the back of the canal estates on Sunday last. 1887    W. W. Hunter Imperial Gazetteer India 		(ed. 2)	 XII. 75  				The people..strive to get a few acres of canal land to cultivate in years of drought; and so great is the burden of this to the dwellers in canal estates, that they will not marry their daughters into rain-land villages. 1941    Allahabad Farmer Mar. 68  				[Buffaloes] are therefore found in large numbers in villages where rain water collects, in the canal estates, and along rivers and streams. 1974    Soil & Water June 28/1  				Canal estates provide a form of waterfront living carefully worked out to suit Australian needs. 1990    I. Douglas in  B. L. Turner et al.  Earth Transformed by Human Action 		(1993)	 xiii. 223/1  				Many immigrants within Australia and the United States move from temperate cities to subtropical coastal canal estates. 2015    Age 		(Melbourne)	 		(Nexis)	 4 July 6  				The modern two-storey house..sits on one of the largest blocks in the canal estate. < as lemmas  | 
	
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