单词 | foreshore |
释义 | foreshoren. 1. The fore part of the shore; that part which lies between the high- and low-water marks; occasionally the ground lying between the edge of the water and the land which is cultivated or built upon. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > beach or foreshore strand plat1582 beach1600 playa1600 wash1614 foreshore1764 sublittoral1886 shore zone1921 midlittoral1948 1764 Skeffling Inclos. Act 13 Land or ground, as a new fore shore to the said river. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 56 Stone heaps which are put out for the defence of the foreshores. 1864 J. G. Bertram Notes Trav. 1862–3. 67 The moment the tide runs back the foreshore is at once overrun with a legion of hungry people. 1894 G. A. Sala London up to Date xxiv. 360 Many grand patrician houses existed on this foreshore [of the Thames] from Essex Street down to Hungerford. 2. Hydraulic Engineering. (See quot. 1874.) ΚΠ 1841 S. C. Brees Gloss. Civil Engin. 34 D, the foreshore. 1873 F. Robertson Engin. Notes 61 A slope..terminating in a long nearly level berm called a foreshore. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 905/1 Fore-shore (Hydraulic Engineering) (a), a bank a little distance from a sea-wall to break the force of the surf; (b), the seaward projecting, slightly inclined portion of a breakwater. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1764 |
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