| 单词 | clapper bridge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclapper bridge In full clapper bridge: a rough bridge or raised path of stones or planks. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > bridge of specific materials tree-bridge1596 pole bridge1785 clapper bridge1793 sangha1814 creeper rope1894 creeper bridge1909 1793 R. Polwhele Hist. Devonshire II. 277 Clapper-bridge, partly in Honiton and partly in Combe-Raleigh, is chiefly built of flint stone. 1852 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. VI. 542 We have here [i.e. at Edburton, Sussex] a lane called Clappers, so named from its ‘clapper’, i.e. a raised footpath at side, to keep foot-passengers out of the water. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 1889 J. L. W. Page Explor. Dartmoor iii. 53 Piers of undressed granite blocks support two or more superincumbent slabs, of width sufficient for the passage of a vehicle..and varying in length according to the breadth of the river. A specimen easily accessible is that which spans the East Dart at Postbridge... Other specimens of these ‘clapper’ bridges..exist on the Moor. 1908 W. Johnson Folk Memory 67 Certain ‘clapper’ bridges, crossing the streams of Exmoor and Dartmoor, are often assigned to the Bronze Age, but they are more probably relics of pack-horse days. 1966 New Statesman 17 June 879/1 There was a stone clapper-bridge beside the other one. < as lemmas |
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