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单词 clay-pan
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clay-pan
clay-pan n. (a) Australia a natural hollow formed of clayey soil and retaining water after rain; (b) U.S. a layer of clay in the soil.
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1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 78 This drain is four feet wide at the top, and goes down some small depth into the clay pan.
1875 J. Forrest Explor. Australia v. 260 We travelled..over stony plains; many clay-pans with water, but no feed.
1890 Argus (Melbourne) 2 Aug. 13/3 The baked surface of the claypan.
1930 A. Groom Merry Christmas xvii. 127 The claypan was torn up into a soft powder from the rushing and driving of thousands of cattle across it.
1954 B. Miles Stars my Blanket xxiv. 216 Between the sandhills there were claypans, flat and hard and white.
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