| 单词 | sluice-head |
| 释义 | > as lemmassluice-head sluice-head n. originally U.S. a supply or head of water sufficient for flushing out a sluice; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > body or mass > sufficient for flushing out a sluice sluice-head1855 1855 Golden Era (San Francisco) 4 Mar. 1/6 At Eureka there are only twelve sluiceheads of water running. 1863 V. Pyke in App. Jrnls. House of Representatives N.Z. (3rd Sess. 3rd Parl.) D.–6. 15 Head races..represent about 200 sluice heads. ?a1880 G. L. Meredith Adventuring in Maoriland (1935) xiii. 145 The one we went to is just a boiling spring, running about five ‘sluice-heads’ of boiling water. 1901 E. Dyson in Austral. Short Stories (1951) 58 Mrs. Mooney..wept sluice-heads... She had been replenishing the fountain of tears with whisky. 1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 6 Jan. 12/3 Although little opened, the springs now have a flow of two sluice-heads. < as lemmas |
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