单词 | bund |
释义 | bundn.1 Anglo-Indian. In India: ‘Any artificial embankment, a dam, dyke, or causeway.’ In the Anglo-Chinese ports, ‘applied specially to the embanked quay along the shore’. (Col. Yule.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [noun] wharf1038 causeyc1330 wall1330 bulwark1555 scut1561 weir1599 mound1613 staithe1613 breastwork1641 embankment1786 bund1813 sheath1850 fleet-dyke1858 sheathing1867 causeway1878 flood-bank1928 stopbank1950 1813 T. Williamson E. India Vade-mecum II. 279 The great bund, or dyke. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. xx. 72 The ‘bund’ is a colossal piece of masonry, consisting of massy walls, the interspace filled up by earth. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. 83 To remove the dykes, or bunds, by which the ancient kings of Persia or Assyria had obstructed the navigation. 1865 G. Rawlinson Five Great Monarchies III. i. 267 A bund or dam thrown across it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). Bundn.2 A league, confederacy, or association; spec. (a) the confederation of German states; (b) a Jewish Social Democratic workers' organization in Eastern Europe, founded in 1897; (c) U.S. an American pro-Nazi organization founded in 1936. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Germanic region > [noun] > confederation of states Bund1850 society > occupation and work > working > association of employers or employees > [noun] > Jewish workers association Bund1903 society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > political associations or societies moral majority1815 patron1870 Tammany tiger1871 grange1875 Silver Shirts1934 Bund1939 SDS1961 Weather Underground1972 1850 Ann. Reg. 1849 363/2 The Governments of Prussia, Saxony, and Hanover have therefore agreed, according to the 11th Article of the Act of Confederation, to enter into a union (bund) that has for its object the mutual protection of its members. 1850 Ann. Reg. 1849 364/1 The Government is required to join this bund called into existence by the danger of the moment. 1851 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 144/2 The new ‘Bund’, with all the motley crew of his fifteen nationalities. 1903 Forest & Stream 24 Jan. 78/3 The institution of revolver shooting is regarded likely to create much interest, as many members of the bunds favor this sort of work. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 4 July 4/1 After the massacre at Kischineff, after the bloodshed at Homel, the idea of self-defence took root..and the ‘Bund’ was organised. 1907 I. Zangwill Ghetto Comedies 357 Our Bund is the soul of the Russian revolution; our self-defence bands are bringing back the days of Judas Maccabæus. 1918 C. G. Robertson Bismarck ii. 81 German Liberalism called for the abolition of the Bund and the Diet. 1939 Life 27 Nov. 69 German American Bund. 1940 G. Marx Let. 12 June in G. Marx et al. Groucho Lett. (1967) 21 I'm not able to sleep... I see Bund members dropping down my chimney, Commies under my bed. 1947 C. L. Morgan Judge's Story xiv. 91 Pressure-groups, leagues, bunds, confederations. 1956 F. Castle Violent Hours (1966) vii. 72 Did you ever do any work on the German-American Bund? 1968 Guardian 25 Oct. 8/6 Anti-Zionism of the Left began with the ‘Bund’, the Russian movement of the 1890s representing Marxist Jews in the revolutionary struggle. Derivatives ˈBundist n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > those involved in labour relations > [noun] > members of other specific associations commissionaire1869 Bundist1907 Wobbly1913 Lightmonger1954 society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > political associations or societies > members of Wiskinkie1800 funder1872 granger1875 Tammanyite1882 Bundist1907 America Firster1927 Bircher1961 Birchite1961 John Bircher1961 1907 I. Zangwill Ghetto Comedies 398 ‘A Bundist!’.. From the bravest revolutionary party in Russia he could surely cull a recruit or two. 1956 F. Castle Violent Hours (1966) vi. 61 But I don't think he'd dare approach any of the Bundists he once used. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2021). bundv. transitive. To embank. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > embank banka1450 bench1587 embank1700 levee1832 bund1883 1883 F. Day Indian Fish 41 Rivers which can be easily bunded. 1917 R. Dollar Mem. xiv. 141 The river front had been substantially bunded. Derivatives ˈbunding n. embanking; embankment. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [noun] > action of raising leveeing1845 bunding1939 1939 Geogr. Jrnl. 93 136 The more common forms [of soil conservation] include silt pits, contour terracing (or bunding), and contour drains. 1950 E. M. Hough Co-op. Movement in India (ed. 2) iii. 170 The bunding of fields to prevent erosion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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