| 单词 | even-down pour |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseven-down pour 1. Esp. of rain: coming straight down, vertical. Applied esp. to a heavy continuous fall of rain (in later use chiefly in even-down pour, sometimes apprehended as a use of downpour n.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [adjective] > heavy steepc1330 pissingc1475 thightc1480 pouring1577 pashing1581 sad1590 steep-down1601 solid1621 even down1622 sluicy1697 pelting1710 buck1732 steeping1774 peppering1827 sluicing1847 torrential1849 peltering1858 plumping1879 teeming1880 lashing1885 monsoonish1886 sheeting1940 1622 D. Browne New Invention Calligraphia xlviii. 312 Some [Letters] haue..plaine even-downe stalkes. 1624 A. Leighton Speculum Belli Sacri 312 Shall the fear of Forraigns freeze the waters of our counsell, and never a fire of zeale; nor even-down rain of courage, to thaw or dissolue them? 1794 Har'st Rig lxxxiii. 27 Now it turns an eident blast, An even-down pour! 1822 J. Galt Steam-boat 258 An even-doun thunder-plump came on, that..drookit the Doctor to the skin. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down (at cited word) There was an even down pour. 1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 268 An evendoon rain is a steady downpour. 1897 ‘L. Keith’ My Bonnie Lady 46 There had been an even-down-pour of rain in the night. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 38/1 ‘Hod t'stoup evendown’—hold the post quite straight or perpendicularly. 1937 in Sc. National Dict. (1952) III. 252/1 [Argyllshire] Ye nuvver saa sich rain: it wuz an even doon poor frae mornin tae nicht. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 95/1 Even-down, of rain: heavy, continuous downpour. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 117/1 Even-down, of rain, heavy, continuous. < as lemmas |
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