单词 | ghat |
释义 | ghatn. Anglo-Indian. 1. the Ghats: the name applied by Europeans to two chains of mountains along the eastern and western sides of southern Hindustan, known as the Eastern and Western Ghats. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > other spec. Mountains of the Moon1597 Carnic Alps1601 the Ghats1603 Pyreneans1768 Rocky Mountains1798 Balkans1802 Carnian Alps1802 Rockies1827 Carpathiana1832 Appalachians1834 Adirondack1838 keel1857 1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 200 Narsinga..lieth Between the mountain Gate and the gulfe of Bengala. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 49 All along here the Top of Gates is seen above the Clouds. 1762 J. Rennell Let. 21 Mar. in H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1886) 282/2 The Mountains of Gate (a string of Hills in ye country). 1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. vii. 342 Thickets which clothe the skirts of the eastern ghats where they approach the sea. 1879 R. H. Elliot Written on their Foreheads II. 5 The ravines..which run down into the forest at the foot of the ghauts. 2. a. A mountain pass or defile. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > through hills or difficult ground portc1275 pacec1330 close?a1400 destrayt1481 gate1601 gut1615 passc1650 defile1685 ghat1698 mountain pass1707 bealach1794 ca1795 poort1834 Passover1839 droke1848 gateway1884 the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > mountain pass gowl1638 notch1649 ghat1698 neck1707 slap1715 narrow1768 bealach1794 poort1796 kotal1880 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 126 I sent to the Havaldar, to know when he would Pass us up the Gaot. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 261/1 At the different gauts or passes into the mountains, duties..are levied. 1803 Duke of Wellington Let. to Murray 26 Apr. in Dispatches (1837) I. 520 The ghaut I am informed is exceedingly bad. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 36 This tigress had been the terror of the country, having long infested the Gaut. 1876 J. Grant Hist. India I. lxi. 309/2 The army descended the Ghauts. b. transferred. ΚΠ 1807 J. Hall Trav. Scotl. I. 198 Not a house or hut is to be seen in this gloomy gaut. 3. A passage or flight of steps leading to the river-side; (hence) gen. a landing-place, the place of a ford or ferry. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > flight of steps > leading to riverside ghat1783 water steps1839 1783 J. Rennell Mem. Map Hindoostan Introd. (1788) 128 Gaut or Ghaut signifies..a landing-place on the bank of a river. 1793 W. Hodges Trav. India 60 Several Hindoo temples greatly embellish the banks of the river, and are all ascended to by Gauts, or flights of steps. 1834 H. Caunter Oriental Ann. xi. 142 He descended the Gaut, and entered the water with his long hair trailing upon the steps behind him. 1842 D. Wilson in Life (1860) II. 195 Lord Auckland..walked..to the ghât at the river side. 1862 Rep. Direct. E. Ind. Railw. Comp. 25 The following materials have been delivered at the Ghauts on the Ganges, in the neighbourhood of the line. 1888 J. Inglis Tent Life Tigerland 25 In the afternoon we stopped near Pokureea Ghat (ferry) to have some tiffin. 1888 J. Inglis Tent Life Tigerland 136 ‘Look out, boys! there's a ghat on ahead’; and..we descried one of those cart-tracks worn down the face of the bank, and leading to a ford. 4. In full burning-ghat. A level spot at the top of a river ghat on which Hindus burn their dead; a funeral pyre. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > [noun] > pile or pyre > site of burning-ghat1877 1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 567/1 To erect cinerators on the burning ghat or ground. 1891 R. Kipling City of Dreadful Night in Life's Handicap 328 A woman's corpse going down to the burning-ghat. 1901 ‘Linesman’ Words Eyewitness (1902) 288 The second farm, which a night or two later blazed as a burning ghat over the poor sergeant's dead body. 1908 Daily Chron. 14 Nov. 5/4 At the ghat, or funeral pyre, a mixture of milk and cocoanut water..was poured into the mouth of the corpse. 1937 L. Bromfield Rains Came i. i. 12 He came frequently along these paths to the ghats after nightfall. There was a kind of macabre beauty about the place, and in the spectacle of the cremation itself there was a kind of faith and certainty. 1964 A. Swinson Six Minutes to Sunset ii. 33 The corpses were taken to the burning ghats outside the city. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1603 |
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