| 单词 | marsh-work |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarsh-work marsh-work n. (a) work done on marshes, usually for drainage purposes; †(b) an establishment (in quot. 1708, one for the manufacture of sea salt) on or near a marsh (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > place of wich716 saltern858 salt-housec1000 wich-work1298 salt-cotec1425 wich-house1534 walling-house1556 salt-works1566 marsh-work1587 saltfata1647 salt-makinga1647 salt-pan1708 brine-seeth1748 seal1756 rope-house1850 walling shed1894 saltery1899 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1541/1 They knew not the order of Romneie marsh works..for they were onelie good dikers and hodmen. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4453/3 A Dwelling-house and a Marsh-work..with large Store-ponds, and Sun-ponds, for making of Brine. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone III. vii. 111 Seeing thus no track of men, nor anything but marshwork, and stormwork. 1897 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 8 614 The boots..are similar to those used for marsh-work. 1992 Restoration Aquatic Ecosyst. (U.S. National Acad. Sci.) App. A. 515 The site was..shaped and graded with Priestman variable counterbalanced excavators imported from England for the marsh work. 2014 D. B. Scott et al. Coastal Wetlands World xiv. 286 Whether the mesocosms focus specifically on one research question, or they are used in integrated observational studies similar to the Chezzetcook marsh work, they reduce the impacts imposed by field monitoring a natural system. < as lemmas |
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