单词 | benching-in |
释义 | > as lemmasbenching-in ΚΠ 1716 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected (ed. 2) I. ii. 99 The whole ascent to it [sc. the Tower of Babel] was by the benching in drawn in a sloping line from the bottom to the top eight times round it. 1730 A. Bedford Script. Chronol. v. iv. 568/2 The Side of the Mount rose about 61 Feet, and bench'd in... So that at every such Benching there was a Walk round, from whence a Prospect of the Country might be seen. 1787 tr. C. E. Savary Lett. on Egypt (ed. 2) I. xviii. 237 The aperture by which they effected this was the well I have mentioned,..which occupies a part of the bottom of the benching, rising two feet in the wall. 1832 E. Robinson Calmet's Dict. Holy Bible (rev. ed.) 50/1 The ascent..landed upon the upper benching-in, near the hearth, or top of the altar. 1908 B. Cunningham Treat. Princ. & Pract. Harbour Engin. viii. 189 The best form of pierhead is that which presents an upright front to the sea on all sides, without benching or recesses of any description. < as lemmas |
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