| 单词 | wing-dam |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswing-dam wing-dam n. a dam or barrier built into a stream to deflect the current. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > [noun] > structures to divert river current scour17.. wing-dam1809 spur1818 training wall1852 training bank1855 training post1884 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > [adjective] > relating to wingdam wing-dam1809 1809 T. G. Fessenden Pills 36 All his rhetorick was directed towards election district, and wingdam bills, and seconding motions. 1863 V. Pyke in App. Jrnls. House of Representatives N.Z. (3rd Sess. 3rd Parl.) D.–6. 18 Many..who held river claims worked very successfully by wing dams, consisting of bags of sand laid into the stream, so as to cut off a portion of its bed, which, being drained by pumping, was paddocked out and passed through the cradle. 1882 Rep. Prec. Metals U.S. 102 By sinking a shaft and drifting preparatory to building a wing-dam. wing-dam wing-dam v. (transitive) to furnish with a wing-dam. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > [verb (transitive)] > furnish with a wingdam wing-dam1857 1857 J. D. Borthwick Three Years in Calif. xvii. 265 A company of fifteen or twenty white men would have wing-dammed this claim. < as lemmas |
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