| 单词 | swallow-pit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasswallow-pit b. spec. An opening or cavity, such as are common in limestone formations, through which a stream disappears underground: also called swallow-pit, swallow-hole n., and locally swallet n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > pot-hole or swallow-hole water sink1553 swallow1610 swallow-hole1660 estuary1665 swallet1668 cockpit1683 sinkhole1772 sink1791 pot1797 water-swallow1811 shake-hole1823 pothole1826 fleet-hole1839 spout hole1849 katavothron1869 ponor1890 sump1951 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 297 The [river] Mole [in Surrey]..is swallowed up, and thereof the place is called the Swallow. 1681 J. Beaumont in Philos. Coll. (Royal Soc.) No. 2. 3 Certain waters which..were conveyed into the ground by a swallow. c1700 W. Kennett MS Lansdowne 1033 Swallow-pit, where hollow caverns remain in the earth upon mineworks. 1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. 96 (note) The Swallows..or basons on some of the mountains, like volcanic Craters, where the rain water sinks into the earth. 1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. 412 Every limestone hill..shows in its swallows and moor pits the erosive power of the atmospheric water. 1895 Naturalist 258 A streamlet..runs..eastward, for about fifty yards, and then disappears in a ‘swallow’, to reappear in another fifty yards and resume its course. < as lemmas |
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