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单词 cut-and-cover
释义

cut-and-cover

[ kuht-n-kuhv-er ]
/ ˈkʌt nˈkʌv ər /

noun

a method for digging a tunnel, laying pipe, etc., by cutting a trench, constructing the tunnel or laying the pipe in it, and covering with the excavated material.

Origin of cut-and-cover

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby cut-and-cover

cut across, cut a deal, cut adrift, cut along, cut a long story short, cut-and-cover, cut-and-dried, cut and fill, cut-and-paste, cut and run, cut and thrust
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Example sentences from the Web for cut-and-cover

  • The cut-and-cover, hurry-scurry methods of doing things, common on some Western farms, will not do in drainage work.

    Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884.|Various

British Dictionary definitions for cut-and-cover

cut-and-cover

adjective

designating a method of constructing a tunnel by excavating a cutting to the required depth and then backfilling the excavation over the tunnel roof
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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