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单词 after-roll
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after-roll
after-roll n.
Brit. /ˈɑːftərəʊl/
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/ˈaftərəʊl/
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U.S. /ˈæftə(r)ˌroʊl/
a second or subsequent roll of thunder; (also) a roll of the waves following the subsidence of a storm; frequently figurative and in figurative contexts.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [noun] > swell
surge1567
sea-gate1583
swella1616
running1622
groundswell1818
backwater1838
after-roll1858
wallow1868
1640 W. Vaughan Church Militant 318 Let's suffer them to spend their windy Breath Upon the Rocky Hills and Barren Heath, That it may be ingross'd in After-Rowles.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xv. 314 Still heaving..from the after-roll of the insurrection.
1901 Northern Counties Mag. Feb. 293 It was in truth but the after-roll of a mightier thunder.
1963 Transatlantic Rev. No. 12. 15 A livid stroke cut the clouds, branched, zigzagged, died: came the afterroll, crackling, clap and burst, peal and blast.
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