| 单词 | well-house |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswell-house well-house n. a building or room enclosing a well and its apparatus; (also) a building or room at a spa or where water from mineral springs is available, (hence) a spa.Earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > well > well-house well-house1354 well-room1650 1354–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 555 In una sera reparanda pro le Welhousdore. 1466–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 641 Pro punctuacione super stabulum hospitum et le Wellehouse infra abbathiam. 1597 in Archaeologia (1913) 64 369 1500 ston lat nail for ye well house. 1750 G. Randolph Enq. Medicinal Virtues Bristol-water i. 53 A Collection of Cases, extracted from a List of Cures, which was formerly kept at the Well-house. 1784 J. Byng Diary 29 June in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 126 There are some families..who ride and drive to take the waters; but these..look down upon the vulgar society of the well-house. 1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags xxvii I made a rush swiftly round the corner, and entered the well-house. 1990 D. McIntosh Visits 162 I left the house and its shrunken, untended dahlias and went out past the wellhouse to the barns. < as lemmas |
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