英语词汇“water、wall”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

water-wall

释义

ˈwater-wall
[Cf. G. wasserwall.]
1. A wall which rises by the side of water; a containing wall beside or around a body of water.
a1440Sir Degrev. 907 Ther ys a place in the wall, Bytwyne the chaumbur and the hal, Thor lyȝthe a mychel watur-wal Of fourty feyt brede.1445–6Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 630 Pro reparacione et emendacione de le Waterwall ac rote exterioris molendini de Scaltoke, 15s.1574in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1582, 105/2 Necnon edificando lie walterwall cum aist(l)erstanis dicti molendini.1660Melrose Regality Rec. (S.H.S.) I. 262 [John Mein, mason, sues William Edgar for 4 l. Scots] for beating of the watter-wall.1907J. Webster Jerry Jr. ii. 21 Three [girls]..were kneeling on the beach thumping and scrubbing a pile of linen. The grass beyond the water-wall was already white with bleaching sheets.
†2. Some plant. Obs. rare^—1.
Cf. penny-wall, dial. name (Isle of Man) for the wall pennywort (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 629 They giue hir the Hearbe Penny-wort or Water-wall to drinke in water.

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