释义 |
† half-island, half-isle Obs. or arch. A peninsula; = demi-island.
1600Holland Livy xxv. xi. 554 Standing as it were in an halfe Island. 1618Bolton Florus iii. vi. 1636 192 Creekes, promontories, straightes, halfe-iles. 1871R. Ellis Catullus xxxi, Of islands jewel and of half-islands, Fair Sirmio. |