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单词 highland line
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Highland line
Highland line n. (a) (in Scotland) the (notional) dividing line between the Highlands and the Lowlands; (b) Geology = Highland Boundary Fault n.
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1798 Rep. respecting Sc. Distillery Duties App. i. A. 34 The Excise Officers..are authorized to take an Account of the Grain consumed and the Spirits distilled, to grant Permits of the same within the Highland Line.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. i. 14 All the way from the border to the Highland line.
1904 Jrnl. Manch. Geogr. Soc. 20 168 Physically to a large extent..the region from the Wall of Hadrian to the Wall of Antoninus, or further to ‘the Highland Line’, as much concerns English as Scottish geography.
1958 Speculum 33 476 Norman-French conquest of England had as a sequel a similar movement of peasant cultivators into parts of Southern Wales, into Scotland below the Highland line, and into the Irish pale.
1985 I. B. Cameron & D. Stephenson Midland Valley of Scotl. (ed. 3) i. 1 The physiographic contrast across the Highland line is a consequence of the difference in the resistance to erosion of the rocks on either side of the fault.
2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 16 Aug. 11 Scots are different from each other, depending on which side of the Highland line—that 420 million-year-old geological fault line from Loch Lomond to the north-east—they originated.
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