| 单词 | deep-water |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeep-water C1. Attributive uses of phrases, as deep-mouth (= deep-mouthed adj.), deep-water, deep-well, deep sea n. ΚΠ 1795 J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation (rev. ed.) 324 A deep-water canal at this place would be essentially useful. 1806 Sporting Mag. 28 192 A deep-mouth Norman hound. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 682/2 Deep-well pump, a pump specifically adapted for oil and brine wells which are bored of small diameters and to great depths. 1880 Harper's Mag. Aug. 341/2 He sat down..to the business of hand-lining for deep-water fish. 1890 Nature 10 Apr. 541 There will be no deep-water channel into the river. 1906 Daily Chron. 5 Sept. 3/3 To allow these deep-well waters..to run heedlessly to waste, is a policy of which a later generation of Australians may have bitter cause for complaint. 1909 Daily Chron. 8 Sept. 7/3 It is a natural deep-water harbour. 1963 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) iv. 6 Deep well pump, any kind of pump delivering from a well, shaft or borehole. < as lemmas |
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