| 单词 | spouting-canal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspouting-canal C2. attributive, with the sense ‘having or functioning as a spout’, as spouting-canal, spouting hole, spouting tube, etc. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1717 W. Vream Descr. Air-pump 11 Screw a spouting Tube to the upper Part. 1735 M. Clare Motion of Fluids 108 'Twill always be found necessary to increase the Bore of the Adjutage or Spouting-pipe, with the Height of the Reservatory. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 581/1 The orifice of the spouting hole..is situated towards the summit of the head. a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 344/1 The Gangetic Dolphin is remarkable for..a roof over the spouting apparatus. 1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 151 The spouting-canal [in the whale] may perform both the offices attributed to it. 1905 Perry Mag. Apr. 373/1 It was thought that geysers were simply boiling springs that had built for themselves spouting tubes. 2000 L. Morgan in A. Knutson Best of Growing Edge ii. 26 Channels made specifically for hydroponics have modifications that make them superior to other spouting channels. < as lemmas |
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