| 释义 |
shilly north.|ˈʃɪlɪ|
Also shillow, shilla, shelly, shulla, etc.
[? Connected with shillet.
Manx has shillee ‘a mass or assemblage of thin slate, or bits of thin stone’ (Cregean), ‘a gravelly beach’ (Kelly); but the word may be an importation from dialectal English.]
Gravel, shingle; (with pl.) a pebble, small stone.
1675in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 307 Every shipp which shall discharge any shilly or stone ballast southwards of the shilly path in this river shall forfeit ten shillings. 1837Thornber Hist. Blackpool 246 A beach of ‘shingle or shulla’, the principal portion of which falls from the cliffs. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Shilla, the loose stones on the sea-beach, the stony sea-beach. 1873T. E. Brown Betsy Lee 24 A stream ran..down the glen, And soaked through the shilly, and out to the bay. 1878Cumberld. Gloss., Shillies, Shilla, Shellies, shore-gravel. 1901Theodora W. Wilson T'Bacca Queen xxviii. 261 She turned from the lamp-lighted road on to the wide strand of shillow. |