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单词 waterside
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watersiden.adj.

Brit. /ˈwɔːtəsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərˌsaɪd/, /ˈwɑdərˌsaɪd/
Forms: see water n. and side n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., side n.1
Etymology: < water n. + side n.1 Compare earlier seaside n.
A. n.
1.
a. The water's edge; a bank or margin of the sea, or of a river, stream, or lake; (sometimes) spec. a quay; a waterfront.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > [noun]
staithec893
cliffeOE
overeOE
wartha1000
strandc1000
brimc1275
brinka1300
rivagec1330
water bankc1384
cleevea1387
watersidea1387
clifta1398
rival?a1400
shorec1400
water breach1495
common shorea1568
verge1606
praia1682
riva1819
splash zone1933
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 419 (MED) Kyng Fortigern sat on Þe water side [L. ad ripam], and was wel ful of woon.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 4288 Alisaunder dooþ cryen wyde His loges setten on þe water-syde.
c1450 (c1425) Brut (Cambr. Kk.1.12) 388 Ser Philippe Leiche..was logged betwene þe watir of Sayne and þe abbey... And þe Baron of Carew was loggid on þe watir syde.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms i. 3 Soch a man is like a tre planted by the water syde.
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. Hv This herbe that I do take to be carex, groweth in fennes and in water sides.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 127 At this tyme, the water of the Thames sprang so high that it drowned many houses about the water syde.
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster West-ward Hoe ii. ii. sig. D3 At some Tauerne neare the water-side.
1715 London Gaz. No. 5353/10 A Large Dye-house at the Waterside.., to be Sold.
1739 W. Stephens Jrnl. 13 Sept. in Jrnl. Proc. Georgia (1742) II. 126 The Captain..was carrying divers Parcels of Baggage to the Water-Side.
1796 F. Burney Camilla V. ix. i. 5 Lord Pervil..came down in a superb new equipage, to the water-side.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott iv, in Poems (new ed.) 18 For ere she reached upon the tide The first house by the waterside, Singing in her song she died.
1855 W. Howitt Land, Labour & Gold II. 78 These birds abound all along the creeks and water sides, and during the night make the loudest and most extraordinary cries.
1885 Liverpool Daily Post 4 Feb. 4/8 Hundreds..assemble at the dock gates in the hope of obtaining employment at the water-side.
1906 J. Conrad Mirror of Sea xxxi. 167 This stretch of the Thames from London Bridge to the Albert Docks is to other watersides of river ports what a virgin forest would be to a garden.
1908 K. Grahame Wind in Willows xi. 257 The garden front of Toad Hall came down to the waterside.
1959 M. W. Spilhaus Under Bright Sky 148 Watching a great fish eagle make for his haystack of a nest in a tree at the waterside.
2013 Daily Echo (Nexis) 27 Oct. Scores of people are gathering at the waterside in Milford on Sea to watch the wind whipping across the ocean.
b. In plural (as two words) in †by (also at, on) (the) water sides: by (at, on) the sides or edges of the water. Obsolete.
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1442 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1442 §22. m. 6 Diverse wharves and keyes beyng by the water sides.
?1530 tr. Compost of Ptholomeus v. sig. ev Whan they playe gladly in the feldes and gardens to take the swete ayre and sporte in the medowes by water sydes.
1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare xiii. 488 To pray in groues, and at the water sides, as the Heathens had vsed to praye.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 668 When the heat of Summer is about the rising of the Dog-star, we must keepe them [sc. swine] altogether by water sides.
1659 A. Speed Adam out of Eden xxvi. 168 Take roots of the weeds that grow on the water sides, wash the earth clean from them, bind them to a pole, and set them in a pond.
2. The side of a place or object facing or next to the water.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > fact of having distinct sides > one or other side or hand > side facing specific direction > side facing the sea or water
waterside1795
seaside1867
1795 Jrnl. House of Commons 7 Mar. 51 482/2 The Trade on the Waterside of the said Parish having, from its advantageous Situation, greatly increased.
1836 Foreign Missionary Chron. Nov. 177/1 The circumference of the city is about 15 miles. The longest side is on the sea; and the least on the harbor. The two water sides have their walls, with low turrets and gates.
1868 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea iii. xii. 280 (margin) Along its whole front on the water side the place [sc. Sebastopol] was secure without needing troops to defend it.
1907 M. R. Hall Surface Water Supply of Southern Atlantic & Eastern Gulf States 94 The bench mark is a nail driven into the water side of an ash tree on the right bank at the mouth of the creek.
1987 D. T. Campbell in A. Shimony Naturalistic Epistemol. 173 A flat bottom hidden predator that..had both eyes on its water side rather than one on its mud side.
2013 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 3 Sept. b1 Divers will do the work on the water side of the sea wall.
B. adj.
Situated or found at the waterside; characteristic of or relating to the waterside.]In quot. 1564 in the proper name of a park.
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1564 Decree in T. West Antiq. Furness (1744) App. ix Those parcells following, that is to say, the herdwick called Waterside Parke..the herdwick called Lawson Park..the herdwick called Plumers.
1663 in Geogr. Jrnl. (1900) 15 634 Having made fast the blubber to the shore, we have a Waterside-man who stands in a pair of boots, to the middle leg in water, and flaweth such flesh as is not clean cut from the blubber.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Fat, the last landed, inned or stow'd of any sort of Merchandize..so called by the several Gangs of Water-side-Porters.
1740 Gen. Evening Post 15 May A Waterside Gangsman..unhappily fell into the River at Billingsgate Dock and was drown'd.
1766 W. Stork Acct. E.-Florida 56 The variety of swamps, rivulets, and water-side lands.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xlviii. 238 Thronged by the roughest and poorest of water-side people.
1883 Longman's Mag. July 308 Waterside flies do not seem to care for yellow, and most waterside flowers are therefore pinkish, purplish or white.
1913 H. James Small Boy & Others vi. 69 I have still in my nostril the sense of the abords of the hot town, the rank and rubbishy waterside quarters.
1973 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. VIII. 439/2 This waterside plant..has a fairly stout,..woody stem covered with old leaf-bases.
2004 Food & Trav. May 29/1 Most days are spent pootling from cove to cove, swimming and snorkelling and lunching at waterside restaurants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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