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Перевод: waterspout speek waterspout


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водосточная труба; водяной смерч


Тезаурус:

  1. A waterspout burst over the village in June 1888, washing soil from the surrounding hills and depositing mud and boulders in the streets - "pots, pans, chairs, stools, mats, and a host of smaller household goods were swept out by the current and deposited in the village pond".
  2. The fire was discovered at 3 a.m. by a master working late, and together with two boys - one of whom climbed a waterspout to get to the juniors' bedroom via the roof and the other operated a hand-pump in dense smoke - managed to raise the alarm.
  3. On 3rd July 1892, a cloud burst on a hill to the west of Langtoft, on almost the same spot where the waterspout of four years earlier had fallen, gouging out two great fissures in the chalk, and rushing along the valley of Briggate towards the village.
  4. The following interesting account of a waterspout which happened about the middle of the 18th century is copied from Mr. Hutchinson.

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