单词 | by waterway |
释义 | > as lemmasby waterway a. A route for travel or transport by water; a navigable river, canal, or stretch of sea or lake. Also in by waterway.In quot. 1883: distance to be travelled by water. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway waterwaya1387 fosse1601 riverway1701 navigation1720 navigation branch1778 silent highway1841 igarape1853 seaway1921 cruiseway1967 the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > water viewed as medium of transit watereOE waterway1858 the world > space > distance > [noun] > distance (to be) travelled > distance by sea or water sea-gate1577 waterway1883 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 131 (MED) Whan kyng Edwyn was i-slawe, and þinges were destourbed, Paulynus wente þennes by water wey [L. navigio] in to Kent. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. ii. v. 343 It [sc. Suceu] hath one gate to the Land, the other are water-wayes. a1700 Surv. River Avon (single sheet) Cutting a new Water-way, from the Mill Pond, to one hundred Yards below the Bridge, which will be 400 Yards. 1785 C. Colles Proposals for Speedy Settlem. of Waste & Unappropriated Lands 13 Of late years the policy of that Island [sc. Britain] has been to promote Inland Navigation, and..it is intersected in all manner of directions by these valuable water-ways. 1858 C. Kingsley in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 324/1 Dearer than wild cataracts or Alpine glens are the still hidden streams which Bewick has immortalized in his vignettes... Pleasant are those hidden waterways. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads ix. 74 The lack of railway and inn accommodation and the length of water-way rendered a cabin necessary. 1904 W. M. Ramsay Lett. to Seven Churches iv. 48 When a waterway is needed, as at Glasgow, we transform a little stream into a navigable river. 1915 A. Hurd in Daily Tel. 24 Aug. 8/7 The defence of this particular waterway [sc. the Gulf of Riga] was entrusted to a number of older ships. 1951 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IV. 37/2 The narrow boat..is possibly the commonest craft on inland waterways in England. 1997 J. Cole & F. Cole Geogr. of European Union (ed. 2) 140 Most oil refineries are in coastal locations, although some are situated inland, receiving crude oil either by waterway..or by pipeline. 2011 A. T. H. Tan Security Strategies in Asia-Pacific iv. 124 The United States..has insisted that the Straits of Malacca is an international waterway. < as lemmas |
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