单词 | plonging |
释义 | † plongingn. English regional (south-eastern). Obsolete. rare. The action or process of cleansing an open drain or sewer by stirring up the mud, etc., at the bottom so that the outward flow may carry it off. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > clear of refuse [verb (transitive)] > clear drain scour1412 flush1789 plonging1851 rod1897 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 425/1 The carting away of the more solid refuse, and the..washing of it away, or, as it is termed, flushing in the case of the covered sewers, and plonging in the case of the open ones. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 427/1 ‘When we go plonging,’ one man said, ‘we has long poles with a piece of wood at the end of them, and we stirs up the mud..while the tide's a going down..and lets out the water, mud, and all, into the Thames.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < |
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