英语词汇“sea、bank”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

sea-bank

释义

sea-bank
[bank n.¹]
1.
†a. The sea-coast or sea-shore; = bank n.¹ 9.
c1350[see bank n.¹ 9].c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 5173 To þe see bank þe cors þai bring.1604Shakes. Oth. iv. i. 138, I was the other day talking on the Sea-banke with certaine Venetians.1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xvi, My music leads to lotty groves, That wild upon the sea-bank wave.
b. A dune or sand-hill.
1848Clough Amours de Voy. 89 The cypress-spires..Ever more growing,..Over the low sea-banks, of the fatal Ilian city.1865Swinburne Chastelard i. ii. 31 The next [star], that saw not love, saw me Between the sea-banks and the sea.
c. A sand-bank; = bank n.¹ 5.
1828Fleming Brit. Anim. 191 This fish [the cod]..is eagerly sought after on those sea-banks which it frequents.
d. attrib.
a1593Marlowe Ovid's Eleg. i. i. 34 Elegian Muse..Girt my shine browe with Sea-banke Mirtle praise [read sprays].
2. An embankment built for protection against the sea, a sea-wall.
1647Hexham i, The Sea-bankes, De Zee-dijcken.1655Marquis of Worcester Cent. Invent. §96 A way to make a Sea⁓bank so firm..that a stream can have no power over it.1733Act 6 Geo. II, c. 37 §5 If any Person..shall unlawfully and maliciously break down..any Sea Bank.1839Civ. Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 450/1 A Sea Bank constructed..for the purpose of enclosing a quantity of sea marsh land.
attrib.1852J. Wiggins Embanking 64 The execution of sea⁓bank work.
So sea-banking, the building of sea-banks.
1852J. Wiggins Embanking 2 Sea-banking, or sea-walling, has hitherto formed but a small portion of the practice of Engineers.

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