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单词 land-water
释义 ˈland-ˌwater
a. Water that flows through or over land, as opposed to sea water.
b. A land-flood.
c. Water free from ice along a frozen shore.
1531–2Act 23 Hen. VIII c. 5 ⁋, Lande waters, and other outragious springes in and upon medowes, pastures, and other lowe groundes.1598W. Phillips Linschoten (1864) 192 The land-waters that by the continuall raine falleth from the Hills.1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies ii. vi. 91 Land-waters, as rivers, fountaines, brookes, springs, floods, and lakes.a1631Donne Serm. li. 520 Sudden riches come like a Landwater and bring much foulnesse with them.1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 335 Which river they supposed to be..swelled with a land⁓water.1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 297 No springs or land-waters are to be found here.1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xxvi. 264 We..found ourselves in a stretch of the land⁓water wide enough to give us rowing-room.
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