| 释义 |
oak-tree|ˈəʊkˌtriː|
= oak 1.
a1000Wife's Complaint 28 (in Cod. Exon. lf. 115 a) Heht mec mon wunian on wuda bearwe Under actreo in þam earðscræfe. Ibid. 36. 1530 Palsgr. 249/1 Oke tree, chesne. 1535Coverdale Isa. i. 29 Ashamed of the oketrees wherein ye haue so delited. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Forest Laws c. 12. 12 Gif the forestar finds anie man..heueand dune ane aik trie. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 112 The oak tree gnarl'd and notch'd. 1841Carlyle Pref. to Emerson's Ess., The smallest living acorn is fit to be the parent of oaktrees without end.
attrib.1888Stevenson Black Arrow 172 The heart misgave her [the ship] in her oak-tree ribs.
†b. oak-tree clay, W. Smith's name for the Wealden Clay: from the oak forests of the Weald.
1816W. Smith Strata Ident. Pt. ii. 11 The Oak-tree Clay also may be mistaken or confounded with the Brick Earth, which in several parts produces good oak. |