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单词 day-water
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day-water
day-water n. Obsolete surface water, esp. as opposed to water from a spring or aquifer (cf. day-stone n. and sense 23).
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1697 W. Gilpin Let. 6 Jan. in J. Lowther Corr. (1983) 341 There is all due care taken that he suffer not by daywater, nor any defect in the frames, etc., and I have acquainted him whenever he observs anything that wants repair, forthwith to make it known.
1698 Dr. Cay in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 369 A meer Day-Water..immediately from the Clouds.
1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia xiv. 327 Such waters taking their rise nearer the day, when the more day-water coming to mix with them, they thus become weakened and diluted.
1808 J. C. Curwen Hints Econ. Feeding Stock 198 A poor clay..extremely retentive of day-water.
1903 G. B. Hodgson Borough of South Shields iv. 154 The Westoe Lane Well, 22 feet deep, which, in addition to its springs, collected the day water from the surface.
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