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单词 carr
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carrn.1

/kɑː/
Etymology: < Old Northumbrian carr rock.
dialect.
A rock: now especially applied to insulated rocks off the Northumbrian and Scottish coasts.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > stack > [noun]
carrc950
stack1769
stag1776
stalk1806
sea-stack1899
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. vii. 24 Se ðe getimbres hus his ofer carr.
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark xv. 46 Byrgen þæt wæs geheawen of carre.
1856 Berwick Nat. Club III. 223 Farne Islands—The Utt Carres, modernized into Out Carres, are not far from Monkshouse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

carrcarn.2

/kɑː/
Forms: Also Middle English kerr, Middle English ker, 1500s–1600s carre.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: < Old Norse Compare Danish kær, kjær pool, pond (e.g. gade-kær village pond), Swedish kærr fen, morass, marsh, moor, Norwegian kjær, kjerr pool, marsh, wet copse, Icelandic kjarr copse-wood, brushwood, kjarrmýrr marsh grown with brushwood.
local.
1. A pond or pool; a bog or fen; now, usually, wet boggy ground; a meadow recovered by draining from the bog.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]
marsheOE
fenc888
sladec893
moorOE
mossOE
marshlandlOE
lay-fena1225
lay-mirea1225
moor-fenc1275
flosha1300
strother?a1300
marish1327
carrc1330
waterlanda1382
gaseync1400
quaba1425
paludec1425
mersec1440
sumpa1450
palus?1473
wash1483
morass1489
oozea1500
bog?a1513
danka1522
fell1538
soga1552
Camarine1576
gog1583
swale1584
sink1594
haga1600
mere1609
flata1616
swamp1624
pocosin1634
frogland1651
slash1652
poldera1669
savannah1671
pond-land1686
red bog1686
swang1691
slack1719
flowa1740
wetland1743
purgatory1760
curragh1780
squall1784
marais1793
vlei1793
muskeg1806
bog-pit1820
prairie1820
fenhood1834
pakihi1851
terai1852
sponge1856
takyr1864
boglet1869
sinkhole1885
grimpen1902
sphagnum bog1911
blanket bog1939
string bog1959
the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun]
pooleOE
seathc950
lakea1000
flosha1300
stanga1300
weira1300
water poolc1325
carrc1330
stamp1338
stank1338
ponda1387
flashc1440
stagnec1470
peel?a1500
sole15..
danka1522
linn1577
sound1581
flake1598
still1681
slew1708
splash1760
watering hole1776
vlei1793
jheel1805
slougha1817
sipe1825
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > reclaimed or improved land
carrc1330
improvement1473
polder1602
dam1629
innam1662
inningsa1669
beaver meadow1784
slobland1843
polderland1849
bush burn1861
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14574 Sire Thadok, þe erchebischop of ȝork, He liuede in kerres, as doþ þe stork.
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 101 There is a praty Car or Pole in Bishops Dale.
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1710) I. 44 This Fenne..hath many Carres of Waters in it.
1556 Scotter Court Roll in E. Peacock N.-W. Linc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) (at cited word) Euery inhabytant of Scotter shall put ther geyse in the carre.
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. (1623) 46 Which pastures may be either high woods, commons, carres, or such like spacious pieces of ground.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words Carre, a hollow place where water stands.
1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 ii. 293 These redeemed meadows, or carrs [Lincolnshire]..consist of an unctuous peat.
1880 Times 17 Sept. 8/5 In the carrs and marishes both corn and turnips are under water.
1881 Archaeologia 46 378 There are lands called cars in most of the neighbouring parishes.
1887 York Herald 16 Apr. 2/1 Agistments in Everingham Carr. Horses and Cattle may be Pastured on the above Carr from 10th May to Old Michaelmas Day, 1887.
2. A fen or bog grown up with low bushes, willows, alders, etc.; a boggy or fenny copse.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > with trees
carrc1440
pine swamp1635
cedar-swamp1637
maple swamp1667
bay-swamp1741
bay-gall1775
bay1795
taiga1888
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 272 Ker, where treys growyn be a watur or a fenn, cardetum; ker for aldyr, alnetum.
1673 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 61 Carre, a wood of alder or other trees in a moist boggy place.
1681 J. Worlidge Dictionarium Rusticum in Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 3) Carre, woody moist Boggy ground.
1865 W. White Eastern Eng. II. 98 The larger islets are known as ‘carrs’, and ‘alder carrs’ to denote those on which the waterside tree grows thickly.
1874 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. I. 132 In Norfolk..osier or alder carrs. One is called the bird-carr from the fact of the black-headed gull breeding there.
1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xv. 111 In the upper marshes, low copses, locally called ‘carrs,’ are numerous.

Compounds

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carr fir n. = carr wood n.
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carr oak n. = carr wood n.
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carr wood n. timber and trees dug up in carrs.
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carr-grave n. Obsolete
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carr-graver n. Obsolete an officer appointed to attend to the carrs.
carr-sick n. Obsolete (see quot.)
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1691 J. Ray N. Country Words Car-sick, the kennel, a word used in Sheffield.
carr swallow n. a local name of the Black Tern ( Sterna nigra).
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1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Tern—Black It is found in the fenny parts of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, and is called at this last place Car-Swallow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

carrcarn.3

/kɑː/
Etymology: perhaps identical with carr n.2
local.
(See quot.)
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1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 146 Whether they can find any coal water i.e. an acid water having a Car, or yellow sediment.
1880 R. Holland in O.C. & F. Words (E.D.S.) 77 The brown sediment (humate of iron) deposited in water from boggy ground is called carr in Cheshire.

Derivatives

carr-water n.
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1875 Lanc. Gloss. 70 Carr-water, red peaty water.
1888 Notes & Queries vii. V. 135. Car-water.
carry adj.
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1875 Lanc. Gloss. 70 Carry, red, peaty.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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