单词 | eylebourn |
释义 | eylebournn. dialect. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > intermittent winterbourneeOE sitchOE sikec1330 eylebournc1480 vipseys1610 periodical stream1804 spruit1832 regime1837 wadi1839 skerth1851 khor1884 oued1920 chaung1945 jube1948 c1480 J. Warkworth Chron. 24 [mentions an intermittent stream near St. Albans, called Wemere (interpreted ‘woo watere’), the flowing of which was ‘a tokene of derthe, or of pestylence, or of grete batayle’; and adds:] Also there has ronne dyverse suche other wateres, that betokenethe lykewyse; one at Lavesham in Kent, and another byside Canturbury called Naylborne. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 30 Of these [springs] there are many in the County of Kent, which..they call Nailbournes there. 1719 J. Harris Hist. Kent 174 Such..as in this County they call an Eylebourn; (or vulgarly a Nailbourn) which is a Spring that rises all of a sudden out of the Ground, runs a while like a Torrent and then disappears. 1719 J. Harris Hist. Kent 240 There is a famous Eylebourn which rises in this Parish and some~times runs but a little way..now and then it goes with a very strong Stream. 1727 Lewis Faversham 4 The brakish Creek, into which a spring or Nail-bourne from Ospringe falls. 1736 in S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (E.D.S.) 38 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Eylebourne, Nailbourn, an intermittent spring. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.c1480 |
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