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单词 serpenting
释义 serpenting, vbl. n. Obs.
[f. serpent v. + -ing1.]
Winding.
1677Evelyn Diary 12 Oct., This place is exceeding sharp in the winter, by reason of the serpenting of the hills.1679Ibid. 23 July, A circular view..which with the serpenting of the Thames is admirable.
So serpenting ppl. a., winding.
1614Drummond of Hawthornden Poems, This Moone, that Sunne,..Be but the same which vnder Saturnes Raigne, Did the serpenting [ed. 1711 serpentine] Seasons interchaine.a1649Flowers of Sion Wks. (1711) 26 Her Floods and pratling Brooks,..with serpenting [ed. 1630 maz-like] Crooks.
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