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单词 sand-trap
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sand-trapn.

Etymology: < sand n.2 + trap n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsand-trap.
1. A device for separating sand and other impurities from a stream of water or pulp passing through it, esp. in the manufacture of paper.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > filtering or percolating > [noun] > filter or percolator > for water
filtering basin1801
sand-trapa1877
sand filter1894
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 2027/2 Sand-trap, a device for separating sand, etc., from water flowing through a pipe.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 221/2 From them the pulp is pumped into the supply-box, which communicates with the sand-traps by means of a regulating cock.
1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 22 These sand traps are long, shallow, wooden troughs, the bottoms of which are covered by suitable rough-haired felt and baffle plates.
1963 R. R. A. Higham Handbk. Papermaking ii. 68 Sand traps..are the small recesses in the trough of a beater or breaker which are covered with a perforated metal plate.
2. Golf. A bunker. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > hazards
hazard1744
blind hazard1816
bunker1824
sand-bunker1824
sand1842
break-club1857
water hazard1889
trap1890
casual water1899
pot bunker1899
sand-trap1922
1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert iv. 99 As for the deep sand-trap in front of the seventh green, he spent so much of his time in it that there was some informal talk..of charging him a small weekly rent.
1927 Daily Express 29 Oct. 3/3 We cannot eliminate from the game that part of it which is played within the confines of the sandtraps.
1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird xv. 212 He doesn't like soft sculpted sand-traps, which he likes to call bunkers.
1980 Amer. Speech 55 127 Sixteen pages of notes and documentation attest to the authors' concern for accuracy and good scholarship, even though the inevitable sandtraps occur where nonspecialists attempt specialized courses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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