| 单词 | head of land |
| 释义 | > as lemmashead of land a. A projecting piece of coastal land, esp. when of considerable height; a promontory, a headland, a cape. Frequently (and originally) in place names, and (in later use) in the fuller form head of land. Also in plural: the projecting pieces of land which enclose a bay. Cf. pen n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] starteOE nessOE snookc1236 head1315 bill1382 foreland?a1400 capec1405 nook?a1425 mull1429 headland?c1475 point?c1475 nese1497 peak1548 promontory1548 arma1552 reach1562 butt1598 promontorea1600 horn1601 naze1605 promonta1607 bay1611 abutment1613 promontorium1621 noup1701 lingula1753 scaw1821 tang1822 odd1869 1315 in B. G. Charles Non-Celtic Place-names Wales (1938) 235 Haliheved[i.e. Holyhead]. 1489 Liber Pluscardensis (Fairf.) (1877) I. 278 Apud locum qui Sanct Abbis Heid vocatur. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 6/1 in Chron. I The name of an head of land in Britayn called Promontorium Herculis. a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) iv. 39 Upon the West-side of the Irish coast are four principal Heads. 1685 B. Ringrose Bucaniers Amer. iv. xi. 58 The Cape [of San Francisco]..looked very like unto Beachy-head in England. 1773 New Display Beauties of Eng. (ed. 2) 213 Near Dover-Castle there is a head of land, called South Foreland, by way of distinction from another head or promontory, which forms the north-east point of the Kentish shore. 1817 Missionary Reg. Feb. 72/1 The ships were surrounded with canoes, which kept her company till she was withoutside the heads of the Bay. 1893 W. T. Wawn S. Sea Islanders x. 162 I attempted to enter the bay, round which the island extends in a horseshoe form. Hardly were we within the ‘Heads’, when the wind dropped. 1925 Brit. Islands Pilot (ed. 2) VI. 317 Cantick Head... The head, which is rather low and rounded, terminates in an abrupt cliff to the southward... The lighthouse on the head is conspicuous. 1948 L. F. Horsfall in C. E. Fayle et al. Trade Winds viii. 184 There was good anchorage within the heads of the bay. 1997 W. Hobbs Ghost Canoe (1998) 180 The canoes crossed Makah Bay..and rounded a head of land to the south of it. < as lemmas |
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