单词 | east sea |
释义 | East Sean. A sea on the east side of a country, or in an eastern region of the world; spec. (formerly) the Baltic Sea. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > Baltic Sea East SeaOE North SeaOE Baltic1720 Littorina sea1921 OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. xii. 52 Hi..bærndon & hergedon & slogan fram eastsæ oð westsæ. lOE Bounds (Sawyer 938) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1848) VI. 122 And swo bi richte merke to ellenstubbe; of ellestubbe in ðare æstsæ. [In bounds of a grant of land at Wyke Regis, Dorset.] c1300 St. Kenelm (Laud) l. 18 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 346 (MED) To þe North-se hombur geth..And Temese into þe est-se. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 51 (MED) At þe hauen of Sandwhiche it [sc. the Thames] falleþ into þe est see. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 1109 Phebus with his hete Gan..To warmen of þe Est See þe wawes weete. a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 189 We gart thaim big twa wallis fra the est se to the west se. c1577 Order 40 in Mariner's Mirror (1979) 65 266 All Ports of like distance from London, Within ye said East Sea, or Sound of Elsenore. 1643 R. Gentilis tr. G. Diodati Pious Annot. Holy Bible 43/2 The East sea, namely, the sea of Sodome. 1697 tr. L. D. Le Comte Mem. Journey China i. iv. 109 This Floud takes its rise in the Province of Yunnan..and..disimbogues into the East-Sea. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4669/3 A Danish Frigot arrived from the East-Sea. 1788 J. Walker Elements Geogr. vi. v. 48 The king of Denmark..exacts a certain tribute or toll from all ships trading to any part of the East Sea. 1843 A. Keith Land of Israel ii. 156 The east sea is the Dead Sea, because it lies to the east of Jerusalem. 1890 J. R. Philpots Oysters II. xxvii. 659 Along the German coast, in the East Sea, the sea-bottom, over many extensive tracts, is firm. 2003 Independent 22 Mar. i. 21/3 We use the name ‘Sea of Japan’ for the body of water between the Korean peninsula and Japan. Koreans, however, call it the East Sea. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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