Rising ground; a ridge or bank. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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释义 | the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] (116) link931 Rising ground; a ridge or bank. Obsolete exc. dialect. rise1240 A piece of ground with an upward slope; a hill. Chiefly in singular. motea1300 A mound (natural or man-made), eminence, or hill, esp. as the location of a camp, city, castle, fort, or other building; an embankment. bentc1405 ? A hillside, rising ground, slope, brae. (Perhaps because these were the localities naturally left in permanent pasture; but the sense is… mote-hill1475 = mote, n.2 1. territory1477 A rising ground, hill, or eminence. height1487 A high or lofty rising ground; an eminence. height of land, a watershed or ridge of high land dividing two river basins (North American). rising1548 The upward slope of a hill; an area of rising ground; a hill, a mound. Also in †rising up. raising1572 Something that is raised above its surroundings; a raised place. Also with up. Obsolete. linch1591 A rising ground; a ridge; a ledge, esp. one on the side of a chalk down; an unploughed strip serving as a boundary between fields. mount1591 An artificial mound or heap of earth, stones, etc.; (spec.) a raised piece of ground, or walk, in a garden (now historical). swelling1630 concrete. A swollen, distended, or protuberant part of something; a protuberance, prominence; †a swell of ground. up1637 A rise or elevation in the ground. Also in figurative context. (Cf. up and down, adv. 1a.) vertex1641 The top, summit, or highest point of something, esp. a hill or structure; the crown of an arch. †Also, a high piece of land, an eminence (obsolete). advance1655 An elevation; a rise (in space). Obsolete. rare. ascendant1655 That which rises above its surroundings; a summit or peak; spec. in Typography = ascender, n. eminency1662 An elevation on the earth's surface; a rising ground, hill. Also an elevated object. Obsolete. ascent1663 A rising ground, an eminence. Obsolete. eminence1670 An elevation on the earth's surface; a rising ground, hill. Also figurative. swell1764 A piece of land rising gradually and evenly above the general level; a hill, eminence, or upland with a smooth rounded outline and broad in… elevation1799 concrete. A rising or swelling (on the skin or surface of the ground); a rising ground, an eminence. embreastment1799 A breast-like swelling of the ground. upwith1819 An ascent or rising ground. rare. lift1825 A rising ground. salita1910 In Italy, an upward slope or incline, a stretch of rising ground. turtle-back1913 A land form likened to the shell of a turtle. upwarp1917 A gentle, extensive elevation of part of the earth's surface. upslope1920 An upward slope; rising ground. whaleback1928 Geology. A large mound of the shape of the back of a whale. More widely, any land form or land mass likened to the back of a whale; spec. (a) = roch… Subcategories:— in marsh or swamp (4) — small mound (19) — hummock (7) — hillock (40) — glacial mound (10) — undulation (7) |
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