| 单词 | sucking sand |
| 释义 | > as lemmassucking sand 4. That sucks down, under water, into a whirlpool, etc. †sucking sand = quicksand n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [adjective] > drawing or sucking in sucking1513 indrawing1589 soakinga1616 the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > quicksand quick gravela1300 quicksanda1300 sucking sand1513 Syrtis1526 sinking sand1531 syrt1574 Serbonian boga1618 flow1819 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. iii. 42 The sowcand sweltht. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. vi. 45 Quhat proffitit me Sirtis, that soukand sand? 1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 118 Sucking Rocks lie on the North-side of the Streights. 1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 117 Where through some sucking pool I will be hurl'd With rapture to the other side of the world. 1853 R. S. Hawker Prose Wks. (1893) 28 There's a nine-knot breeze above, And a sucking tide below. 1910 B. Capes Jemmy Abercraw ii. xviii. 259 It was like a nightmare race over sucking quicksands. < as lemmas |
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