“sluicy”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

sluicy

释义

sluicy, a. Chiefly poet.|ˈsluːsɪ|
Also 7 slucy.
[f. sluice n. + -y¹.]
1. Of rain, etc.: Falling or pouring copiously or in streams, as if from a sluice; streaming, drenching.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 437 Oft whole sheets descend of slucy Rain.1715Pope Iliad v. 122 While Jove descends in sluicy sheets of rain.1813T. Busby Lucretius II. v. 443 Rapid rivers, swelled by sluicy showers.1863Pilgr. over Prairies I. 148 The deluges of rain that in compact, sluicy sheets now descended.
2. Resembling a sluice; acting like a sluice. rare.
a1703Pomfret Last Epiphany iii, Such were the boding Times, Ere Ruin blasted from the sluicy Sky.1706–7Farquhar Beaux' Strat. iv. i, That hospitable Seat of Life..open'd all its sluicy gates to take the Stranger in.
3. Of sand: Wet, soaking.
1818Keats Endym. i. 946 'Tis the grot..where her tender hands She dabbles, on the cool and sluicy sands.

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