| 单词 | marsh wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarsh wall marsh wall n. a dyke. ΚΠ 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 20v Marsh wall too slight, strength now or god night. 1684 Lady Ivy's Trial in Coll. State Trials & Proc. (1735) VII. xxxvii. 594/2 There is a covenant, that if he recover any part of the wall, marsh-wall, the tenant shall have the advantage of it, and increase his rent. 1763 Estimate compleating Harbour of Rye in J. Smeaton Rep. (1797) I. 114 To continuing a sea bank or wall from the dam at E, to marsh wall at G. [£]65 0[s.] 0[d]. 1858 Justice of Peace 26 June 402/1 The defendants, without permission,..broke down a further portion to the extent of 32 feet of the said marsh wall. 1886 P. H. Emerson & T. F. Goodall Life & Landscape Norfolk Broads 46/2 When the water fell the sodden heaps [of the crop] were moved, and placed on the marsh wall to dry. 1978 C. Platt Medieval Eng. (2001) ii. 35 There is..evidence of considerable care and expensive workmanship on the contemporary bastion recently excavated on the line of the Marsh Wall at Bristol. 2004 A. Foyle Bristol 154 The Marsh wall ran N of present King Street, with gates at both ends. < as lemmas |
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