| 单词 | road drift |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad drift road drift n. now rare a substance consisting of sand, dung, etc., scraped from the surface of a road and used esp. in making mortar, or as fertilizer; cf. road dust n., road scraping n. (a). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > gravel, small, or broken stones gravel?a1366 road drift1789 hoggin1793 1789 J. Adam Pract. Ess. Agric. I. 195 Frost coming on, a stratum of chalk is brought, and put over the first layer of dung; or, in its stead, road drift. 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 222/2 Road drift..is certainly by no means so good as fine sand. 1861 W. Fairbairn Iron 144 It is constructed of boiler plates, and lined with fire-brick, road-drift, or ‘ganister’. 1913 P. C. Cowan in H. P. Boulnois Mod. Roads (1919) iii. 81 Making up a slurry, like very thin mortar, in the road channel with sharp sand or old road drift or scrapings containing little soft matter. < as lemmas |
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