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单词 pound lock
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pound lock

noun
Fuller term for lock1 (sense 2 of the noun).Exeter had been linked to Topsham by a new cut in 1564-6, certainly the first recorded use of the pound lock, the critical technology for inland navigation....
  • Building on the steady growth of river navigation in the seventeenth century, ‘dead-water’ canals using pound locks were being built in Ireland in the 1730s.

Origin

Late 18th century: pound from pound3, in the sense 'body of still water, pond'.

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