| 单词 | western waters |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswestern waters western waters n. (also with capital initial(s)) U.S. (now historical) the river systems to the immediate west of the Appalachian Mountains, forming the eastern watershed of the Mississippi River. ΚΠ 1777 in Amer. Speech (1940) 15 410/1 All persons who..had bona fide settled themselves..upon any waste and ungranted lands on the said Western Waters..shall be allowed for every family so settled four hundred acres of land. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. vii. 103 What will the Yankee Choppers say, when they have cut their path from the eastern to the western waters. 1896 T. Roosevelt Winning of West IV. vi. 274 He showed that on the Western waters alone it would be possible to gather armies amounting in the aggregate to twenty or thirty thousand men. 1925 Boys' Life July 11/3 A prophet, a sorcerer, a tremendous personality among all the tribes by the ‘Western Waters’. 2006 Cruise Trav. Apr. 49/3 The year was 1811 when a newfangled contraption showed up on the ‘western’ waters just beyond the Appalachian mountains. < as lemmas |
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