| 释义 |
gime dial.|gaɪm|
Also gyme.
[cf. ON. gíma ‘a vast opening’ (Vigf.); f. Teut. root *gī̆-: see gane v.]
(See quot. 1877.)
1697A. de la Pryme Diary (Surtees) 167 It being impossible that such vast waters should be contained in such short and small bounds, it burst a huge gime close by Gore Steel, near Thorn, where there had been a vast gime formerly, and so drounded all the whole Levels. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Gyme, a hole washed out of the ground by the rushing water, when an embankment gives way. |