单词 | water-quake |
释义 | ˈwater-quake [f. water n. + quake n., after earthquake.] A seismic disturbance in the sea.
1577Holinshed Chron. II. 1039/2 marg., On the Saterday after..chaunced an other earthquake, or as some write, a watershake [marg.] waterquake. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 500 Wittlesmere doth somtimes in..faire weather sodainely rise tempestuously, as it were into violent waterquakes. 1755H. Walpole Let. to Montagu 25 Nov., There have been lately such earthquakes and waterquakes. 1762Gentl. Mag. XXXII. 291/2 A water-quake was felt at Bergen in Norway. 1862M. Hopkins Hawaii 419 Earthquakes and waterquakes are also the attendants of these fractures. |

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