| 单词 | chalk stream |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschalk stream chalk stream n. a stream flowing over chalk. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > other well streamOE letch1138 well strandc1429 pow1481 black water1483 wash1530 gravel-brook1591 spring branch1650 pour1790 water splash1820 chalk stream1829 understream1830 water feeder1831 quebrada1833 black spring1847 weir-stream1889 obsequent1895 anti-dip1900 resequent1901 misfit1910 1829 T. Arnold Jrnl. 7 Aug. in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1846) App. D. 658 As gentle and as limpid as one of the clear rapid chalk streams of the south of Hampshire. 1858 Kingsley in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 330/1 In chalk streams the largest fish are found oftener in the mill-heads than in the mill-tails. 1904 E. F. Benson Challoners xiv The chalk-stream..was brimful from bank to bank of hurrying translucent water. 1906 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 453 The chalk stream regions to-day are not fishing countries in the sense that Devon, Hereford, or Wales are. < as lemmas |
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