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▪ I. canyon, n.|ˈkænjən|
Also kanyon.
[A phonetic spelling of Sp. cañon, designed to represent the proper spoken word: cf. canion.]
= cañon n.3
1837O. Russell Jrnl. (1955) 61 A deep narrow kanyon of rock. 1841Farnham Trav. Gt. Western Prairies (1843) I. v. 267 About midway from the Great Gap and the Kenyon of the south Fork of the Platte. Ibid. 268 This Kenyon terminates thirty miles above the Gulf. 1861R. Burton City of Saints 117 note, The Spanish cañon—Americanised to kanyon—signifies a..ravine of peculiar form, common in this part of America. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. iii. 39 Traversed a kanyon or ravine. 1878Black Green Past. xiii. 103 To explore the neighbouring canyons. 1946Nat. Geogr. Mag. Jan. 33/2 High pine-studded canyons.
▪ II. ˈcanyon, v.
[f. the n.]
a. intr. To flow in(to) a canyon.
b. trans. To cut into canyons.
1869S. Bowles Summer Vac. Colorado 25 They ‘canyon’, as, by making a verb of the Spanish noun, the people of the country describe the streams as performing the feat of such rock passages. 1870J. H. Beadle Utah 441 Bear River..forms a great U in Idaho, then turning southwest ‘canyons’ downward three miles. 1878I. L. Bird Lady's Life in Rocky Mts. (1879) xi. 195 Rocks, cleft and canyoned by the river. 1944Christian Sci. Monitor 26 Dec., The great inland rivers of America, as wide as the Missouri and as canyoned as the Colorado. |