| 单词 | water splash |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater splash water splash n. a water-filled dip or shallow ford in a road; (in later use also) a similar feature created as an obstacle in a race (for horses, cars, etc.).Quot. 1820 is a misquotation of a passage from W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals (1613) I. v. 103; the original reading is water plashes (cf. water-plash n. at Compounds 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > other well streamOE letch1138 well strandc1429 pow1481 black water1483 wash1530 gravel-brook1591 spring branch1650 pour1790 water splash1820 chalk stream1829 understream1830 water feeder1831 quebrada1833 black spring1847 weir-stream1889 obsequent1895 anti-dip1900 resequent1901 misfit1910 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > place where something may be crossed > fordable place > ford > portion of road crossed by stream wash-waya1631 water splash1820 1820 Retrosp. Rev. 2 i. 172 Through the quagmires, and red water splashes, The boyes runne dabling through thicke and thin. 1835 C. Dickens Let. 18 Dec. (1965) I. 109 Our driver..ingeniously drove the party into a ‘water-splash’. 1886 Bicycling News 1 Oct. Last Saturday, two riders on a tandem tricycle attempted to rush through Shepperton ‘water splash’. 1971 Irish Times 23 Aug. 6/1 [They] lost their chance of victory with a stop and a tumble at the water-splash near the end. 1995 Church Times 10 Mar. 24/3 Outside is a much-loved lane of my childhood, a helter-skelter of a road which rushes one through a water-splash. 2009 J. Zuehlke Rally Cars 5 (caption) Norwegian driver Petter Solberg powers his Subaru Impreza WRC rally car through a water splash. < as lemmas |
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