| 单词 | rack-heap |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrack-heap rack-heap n. U.S. a heap of wreckage, driftwood, etc.; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > old or useless vessel hull1582 coffin1833 ballyhoo1836 old lady1841 rack-heap1850 wreck1896 crock1903 rust bucket1944 the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > obstruction in > specific planter1802 snag1807 rack-heap1850 tacouba1870 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > demolition > a ruin or wreck fallinga1382 wracka1586 wrakea1627 land-wracka1657 wreck1814 rack-heap1850 wreckage1874 crack-up1926 1850 J. Gallaher Western Sketch-bk. 149 Such a wretched rackheap of dry bones as you. 1851 West. Jrnl. Agric. Sept. 377 But everywhere in the sand and soil are embedded logs and rack-heaps,..which as effectually obstruct and change the river-current, as rocks would. 1889 P. Butler Personal Recoll. vii. 72 There were in the river heaps of drift-wood, called ‘rack-heaps’, dangerous places into which the water rushed with great violence. 1909 ‘M. Twain’ Is Shakespeare Dead? i. 18 When the Pennsylvania blew up and became a drifting rack-heap freighted with wounded and dying. 1958 W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 145 Rackheap, a. A piled-up drift or heap of logs and trees in a river. b. Sometimes applied to a heap of logs piled up ready to be splashed down a river. < as lemmas |
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