| 单词 |
mid-water |
| 释义 |
mid-water [f. mid a. + water n.] The middle portion of the water vertically, near neither to the bottom nor the surface.
1653Walton Angler xii. 183 Letting him [a minnow] swim up and down about mid-water, or a little lower. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxii. (1818) II. 295 Some move in midwater, either by the same motion of the legs as they use in walking, or by strokes, as in swimming. 1905Holman Hunt Pre-Raph. I. 69 Red-spotted trout poised in mid-water. attrib.1868Daily Tel. 5 June 5/1 It is the same with herrings, cod, ling, and all the mid-water fish. |

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