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单词 teredo
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Matters reached crisis-point in the early 1980s, when it was discovered that the enormous wooden piles which hold up the entire structure were infested with teredo shipworm. Barmouth Bridge to receive further £30m upgrades 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z
The warm waters of the Caribbean are paradise for teredo worms, which are actually mollusks with a voracious appetite for wood. Why Haven't We Found Christopher Columbus's Ships? 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z
A long trestle at the foot of Pike Street, Seattle, at which the ship “Belle Isle,” among others, often loaded, fell in, demolished by the work of the teredo. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z
"I am a teredo," replied the little muffled voice. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z
The park, with a heavily used soccer pitch and riverfront walk, sits on century-old timbers that were riddled with shipworms, or teredos, tiny mollusks that bore into wood. As Hoboken?s Riverfront Crumbles, the Cost for Repairs Soars 2011-02-08T02:05:05Z
Then the hull of the vessel was unprotected, and the teredo, or ship worm, bored it through and through, until nothing but careening and caulking could save the poor craft from sinking. The West Indies and the Spanish Main
Greenheart is the wood used for gates exposed to salt water, as it resists the attack of the teredo in temperate climates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth"
Now that it was out in the open, it could be seen that teredos—shipworms—had feasted on it and burrowed into it until it was nothing but a chair-shaped shell. The Wailing Octopus
Whilst he was waiting he found the teredo a very amusing companion. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z
The latter have remained for years at the bottom of the sea uninjured by teredo, or any destructive crustacea. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
It is not touched by the teredo and other marine worms. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
They here remained until the 23rd, endeavouring to repair their vessels, which were fearfully pierced by the teredo. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
Did the deadly teredo bore the ship's timbers full of holes, until she went down with all on board? South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure
He took it carefully out of the water: the little teredo had done her work well, and in an instant the cover flew open. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z
Besides these esthetic conditions, wooden piles were rejected because the teredo, in this part of the Sound, is very active. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Reinforced Concrete Pier Construction
In what manner does the railway draw upon the forests?—the paper-maker?—the farmer?—the tanner?—the beaver?—the teredo, or ship-worm? Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
By the end of April, with a favourable wind, Columbus left the disastrous shores of Veragua; but his ships, honeycombed by the teredo, could with difficulty be kept afloat. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
On it were innumerable barnacles, several species of teredo, one of which, having its head shaped like a screw split into two equal portions, I believe to have been quite new. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
The Child thrust in his little hand and felt all through the tube, but there was nothing more within, and he was so disappointed he had scarcely heart to thank the teredo. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z
I would not have ventured again, but our whaler is as bad,--all eaten by the teredo,--so I thought it as well to take both, and stick to that which swims longest. The Personal Life of David Livingstone
It was expected that the double solution, by forming an insoluble compound, would prove an effective protection against the teredo. Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885
They were pierced in all parts by the teredo or worm which abounds in the tropical seas. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)
There have been discovered many pieces of wood, containing holes drilled by the teredo, and thus shewing that they had been long drifted about in the ocean before being entombed at the bottom. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
"We are seldom engaged on such a trifling affair as this," replied the teredo; "we eat through ships and piers, and piles made of the hard trunks of oaks." The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z
There was nothing of which the Norsemen were more afraid than of the teredo, or shipworm, which gnaws the wood of ships. Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
This merely confirms the general conclusion which has been stated under the head of creosoting, that nothing but the impregnation with creosote, and plenty of it, is an effectual protection against the teredo. Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885
"She's been under water about two years and I suppose the teredo have digested her upper works by now; but they can be rebuilt quickly and without a great deal of expense." Cappy Ricks Retires
Quatrefages proposed to destroy the teredo in harbors by impregnating the water with a mineral solution fatal to them. The Earth as Modified by Human Action
The piles that supported the wharves often needed renewing, being eaten by teredos. Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East
The ships were pierced by the teredo, which eats through thick timbers, and is so destructive that the seamen of later times have learned to sheath the hulls of their vessels with copper. The Life of Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time
But now it is time to show another set of teredos, who burrowed and swarmed in the government offices where the principal scenes of our present study took place. Bureaucracy
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