| 单词 | lost river |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslost river lost river n. U.S. a river which disappears into the ground and re-emerges elsewhere. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > types of river > [noun] > specific headwater1535 Sabbatical river1613 salt river1659 tide-river1739 river pirate1743 salmon river1753 artery1787 warp-river1799 feeder1825 lost river1843 banker1848 tidal river1877 pirate1889 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. ix. 58 Out come the mole rivers that have burrowed all this time under the earth, and which, when so unexpectedly found are styled out there—‘lost rivers’! And every district of a dozen miles square has a lost river. 1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 197 The great ‘lost river’ which bursts out of the vertical side of the cañon of the Snake. < as lemmas |
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