| 单词 | quarter-ebb |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter-ebb quarter-ebb n. now rare the state or time of the tide when it has receded a quarter of the distance from its highest to its lowest point; cf. half ebb n. ΚΠ a1450 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Bodl. 619) (1872) ii. Suppl. §46. 59 Wheþir it be..half or quarter ebbe. 1582 R. Madox Diary 4 Apr. in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 102 At 3 a clock, a quarter eb, we cam to an anchor. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 17 A spring tide, ebbe, a quarter ebbe, halfe ebbe. 1763 Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 418 The first motion was most considerable, the sea advancing the first time to a quarter ebb. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. i. ii. 267 Measured from the sea at quarter-ebb tide. 1934 Geogr. Jrnl. 83 43 It is flowing..along the coast from Porthleven to Gunwalloe. Then it veers to south, and at quarter-ebb is going south-west. < as lemmas |
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