| 单词 | slack-water deposit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslack-water deposit C1. attributive, as slack-water basin, slack-water deposit, slack-water period, slack-water stream. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > still part keld1697 steady1792 slack1825 slack-water basin1836 slack-water1837 1836 J. Hall Statistics of West 38 At low stages the [Ohio] river becomes resolved into a succession of ripples, with extensive slack water basins between them. 1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner ii. 9 This slack-water period of a race, which comes before the rapid ebb of its prosperity. 1889 G. F. Wright Ice Age N. Amer. 358 The Ohio above Cincinnati was a slack-water stream. 1894 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 196 The ice-dam accounts most naturally for the slack-water deposits. < as lemmas |
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