springhead

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The source of a natural spring.
    — But now we had reached our opening ground, the boy with the pony and the second brace of dogs was ordered to the rear, with instructions to meet us by the side of a certain gray rock, and spring-head, on the northern edge of Kettletang, a huge, bluff-headed hill, overtopping all his neighbors, at noon, when we should be there to refresh the inner man, and take up the fresh dogs for the afternoon.
  2. A source. figuratively
  3. A head or end-piece for a carriage-spring.

词形变化

springheads plural

词汇关系

近义词
fountainhead

词源

From spring + head.
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