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单词 swatching
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swatchingn.

/ˈswɒtʃɪŋ/
Etymology: Origin unknown.
A method of taking seals: see quot. 1901.
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swatching1883
1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 175 Swatching and Trolling Old Hoods.
1901 W. T. Grenfell in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 692/1 Many seals are taken by the process known as ‘swatching’... On finding a clear piece of water, called a ‘pond’, we built a shelter of ice, called a ‘gaze’. Here one sits and waits till a seal puts up his head.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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