| 单词 |
flood-hatch |
| 释义 |
flood-hatch [see hatch.] A framework of boards sliding in grooves, to be raised in time of flood; a sluice, floodgate. lit. and fig.
1587Turberv. Epit. & Sonn. (1837) 299, I cannot liue if you doe stoppe, the floudhatch of your frendly brook. 1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 26 Let downe The floud-hatches of all spectators eies. 1806Wolcott (P. Pindar) Tristia Wks. 1812 V. 340, I close the flood-hatch of your praise. 1807Vancouver Agric. Devon. (1813) 319 At the end..another flood-hatch is fixed on a level with the bed of the river. 1880in W. Cornw. Gloss. |

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