| 单词 | cockpit country |
| 释义 | > as lemmascockpit country cockpit country n. (in Jamaica; also with capital initials) an area mainly in the north-west of the island containing many rocky hollows and sinkholes (see sense 5); (Geomorphology) a similar area in any part of the world. ΚΠ 1866 J. G. Sawkins in J. G. Sawkins et al. Rep. Geol. Jamaica (1869) 216 It is here the Cockpit country commences;..the difficulties presented by the uneven surface, the loose fragmentary limestone, the steepness of the declivities and acclivities, the absence of soil or water render this portion of the parish undeserving of attention either for agricultural or pastoral purposes. 1966 J. C. Pugh in G. H. Dury Ess. Geomorphol. 135 Some workers prefer to regard cockpit country and tower karst as typical of karst in general, holding that in the past too much emphasis has been placed on solution and on associated collapse of passages, and too little on surface features of solution which are not restricted to tropical regions. 2008 Caribbean Rev. Bks. Nov. 31/2 The maroons had to hunt whether they liked it or not, and in the rough terrain of the Cockpit Country at that. < as lemmas |
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