| 单词 | tail-water |
| 释义 | > as lemmastail-water tail-water n. the water in a mill-race below the wheel, or in a canal or navigable channel below a lock. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > mill-tail tail1533 mill-tail1569 tail-water1760 tail-race1776 flusha1825 millwash1861 tail-dam1903 1760 J. Smeaton in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 138 An overshot [wheel], whose height is equal to the difference of level, between the point where it strikes the wheel and the level of the tail-water. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 103 When the water in the mill-tail will not run off freely, but stands pent up in the wheel-race, so that the wheel must work or row in it, the wheel is said to be tailed, or to be in back-water or tail~water. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 17 Mar. 9/1 At Molesey Lock the tail water was almost five feet above the summer level. < as lemmas |
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