floating dam: †(a) = camel, n. 2a; (b) ‘a caisson used instead of gates for a dry-dock’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
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| 释义 | society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment for moving ship over bar or shoal > [noun] > apparatus giving increased buoyancy (5) floating dam1706 floating dam: †(a) = camel, n. 2a; (b) ‘a caisson used instead of gates for a dry-dock’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.). camel1716 technical. A machine for imparting additional buoyancy to vessels, and thus enabling them to cross bars, shoals, etc., otherwise impassable; also… caisson1811 Hydraulics. ‘A sort of float sunk to a required depth by letting water into it, when it is hauled under the ship's bottom,‥and on pumping out the… camel-engine186. = sense 2a. float-case1874 = caisson, n. 2d. |
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