| 单词 | watering party |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswatering party watering party n. a group of people responsible for collecting water, esp. fresh drinking water. ΚΠ 1769 W. B. Monkhouse Jrnl. 21 Oct. in J. Cook Jrnls. (1955) I. App. IV, 584 We found about Sixty people sitting very orderly and peaceably near the Watering Party. 1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. II. xvii. 19 When the natives had constructed a number of water-bags..a watering party was despatched with these. 2009 T. Shellam Shaking Hands on Fringe iv. 87 After Lockyer had walked for about 2 miles (near to where the watering party had gone to collect fresh water), an Aboriginal man came out of the thick scrub. < as lemmas |
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