| 单词 | the washes | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Washes  a.  A sandbank or tract of land alternately covered and exposed by the sea; a portion of an estuary admitting of being forded or crossed on foot at low tide.  †the Washes, applied spec. to the fordable portion of the estuary between Lincolnshire and Norfolk; hence used as a name for the estuary itself, now called  the Wash. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > 			[noun]		 > covered by sea washc1440 sea-common1584 salting1712 inksa1740 tide-land1787 sea-grounds1826 salting-mound1908 shore1919 tide-water1949 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > 			[noun]		 > mouth or outfall > specific the Washesa1548 c1440    Promptorium Parvulorum 517/2  				Wasche, watur or forde [v.r. forth], vadum. a1548    E. Hall Chron.: Edward VI 208 b  				King Edward..with all hast possible passed the wasshes..& came to the toune of Lynne. 1601    P. Holland tr.  Pliny Hist. World I.  iii. xxvi. 71  				As for the coast of Illyricum, it is pestred with more than a thousand [islands]; such is the nature of the sea, full of shelves and washes, with narrow chanels running betweene. 1611    R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Passade  				The swift course of the flowing, and ebbing of the sea, on the Sandes, or Washes. a1616    W. Shakespeare King John 		(1623)	  v. vi. 42  				Halfe my power this night..are taken by the Tide, These Lincolne-Washes haue deuoured  them.       View more context for this quotation 1617    F. Moryson Itinerary  iii. 140  				Upon the bay which Ptolomy names, Æstuariam Metaris, vulgarly called, the Washes, lieth the large Towne of Linne. a1631    J. Donne Serm. 		(1959)	 V. 312  				A washing begun in Baptisme,..Not such a washing, as the Washes have, which are those sands that are overflowed with the Sea at every Tide, and then lie dry. 1641    W. Prynne New Discov. Prelates Tyranny  ii. 93  				Hee departed out of Chester..his friends conducted them over the washes which are dangerous. a1657    G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II ccliii, in  Poems 		(1878)	 III. 200  				Mowbray, who had gone all the way along Vpon these Washes..Now to goe further, thought a Quick-sand sprung Might swallow him. 1681    W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis 		(1693)	 1295  				The washes, as in Lincolnshire; Æstuaria. 1723    D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack 		(ed. 2)	 119  				There was no way now left, but that by the Washes into Lincolnshire. 1740    G. Lynn Let. 21 Apr. in  Philos. Trans. 1740–41 		(Royal Soc.)	 		(1744)	 41 689  				An Easterly Breeze, which the Borderers on the Coast of Lincolnshire and Norfolk call Tide-weather, and may be occasioned by the Vapours arising from the Tides, which then cover a vast Wash of Sands in their Neighbourhood. 1851    Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12  ii. 289  				The great bay or wash, which forms the sole receptacle for the drainage waters, is so shallow. < as lemmas  | 
	
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