water-laid 的定义
Ropemaking.
- noting a rope laid left-handed from three or four plain-laid ropes, in the making of which water was used to wet the fibers instead of the more customary oil or tallow.
更多water-laid例句
- Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
- When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
- Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
- Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.
- In secret, before the referendum, the council went ahead and fluoridated the water anyway.
- Urbanity ushers in water that needs no apology, and gives a zest to the worst vintage.
- The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.
- The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.
- Mrs. Woodbury paints in oils and water-colors; the latter are genre scenes, and among them are several Dutch subjects.
- But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.