byfall

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A falling about; an incidental accessory or accretion; a happenstance; occurrence; instance.
    — The ceremonies are as it were an income or a byfall.
  2. A fall of water, usually lesser in size, near to or beside a larger, more predominant waterfall.
    — There was the small byfall to which I have referred; there was the weir proper; there was a broadish lasher, the whole between them making a very fair description of tumbling bay, flanked by strong, individual streams.

词形变化

byfalls plural

词源

From by- + fall. Compare befall.
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