| 释义 |
geo, gio dial.|gjoː|
Also goe.
[a. ON. gjá.]
In Orkney and Shetland: A gully, a creek. Also, in wider use: a long, narrow, steep-sided cleft or inlet formed by erosion in coastal cliffs, and typically represented by the geos of Orkney.
1793Statist. Acc. Scotl. VIII. 159 A deep hollow, called, in the dialect of the parish, the Wolf's geo. 1822Scott Pirate xix, By air and by wick, and by helyer and gio. 1856Edmonston Sk. & Tales Shetland Isles iii. 30 Many a wild geo and shattered crevice. 1882Geikie Geol. Sk. 41 Gios, or narrow steep-walled gullies, or inlets, by which the sea-cliffs are indented. 1883Standard 21 Mar. 3/7 They came ashore..in a small goe on the west side of Ronsay. 1934E. Linklater Magnus Merriman xxxiv. 346 The waves..drove another [sc. trawler]..hard ashore in a Westray geo. 1960Williamson & Boyd St. Kilda Summer x. 102 The route rises to the right following a series of ledges into the geo. 1961L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 208/1 Geo..has been adopted by geomorphologists to describe coastal clefts, often marking joints, faults or dikes from which material has been removed by wave action. 1970R. J. Small Study of Landforms xii. 449 In plan the cliffs are usually complex and regular, with inlets and geos developed along joints and faults. |