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单词 trompe
释义 I. trompe1 Obs. rare—1.
[a. OF. trompe (Godef.), f. tromper to deceive: cf. trump v.2]
Deceit, deception.
1547Bk. Marchauntes a vij, Beholde here the trompe the paynted glosse of theyr malycyousnes.
II. trompe2|trɔ̃p|
Also trombe, tromp.
[F. trompe, trombe.]
An apparatus for producing a blast, in which water falling in a pipe carries air into a receiver, where it is compressed, and thence led to the blast-pipe; a water blowing-engine. Also attrib.
1828Webster, Tromp, a blowing machine formed of a hollow tree, used in furnaces.1839Ure Dict. Arts 824 The trompe, or water-blowing engine.Ibid. 825 The ordinary height of the trompe apparatus is about 26 or 27 feet to the upper level of the water cistern.1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Trombe or Trompe, (Fr.), an apparatus for producing an air-blast by means of a falling stream of water, which mechanically carries air down with it, to be subsequently separated and compressed in a reservoir or drum below.1894Bowker in Harper's Mag. Jan. 418 About the middle of the seventeenth century the tromp was introduced.
III. trompe
obs. f. trump; var. trombe1 Obs.
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