单词 | hithe |
释义 | hithehythen. A port or haven; esp. a small haven or landing-place on a river. Now obsolete except in historical use, and in place-names, as Hythe, Rotherhithe, Lambeth (originally Lamb-hithe), Hythe Bridge at Oxford, Bablock Hithe on the Thames above Oxford. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] hithec725 havenOE port1340 stationa1382 harbourc1405 haveningc1425 piera1552 harbourage1850 c725 Corpus Gloss. 643 Deconfugione, statione, hyðae. a1000 Boeth. Metr. (Gr.) xxi. 13 Þæt is sio an hyð. a1000 Prose Life Guthlac (1848) xi. 54 Comon þær þry men to þære hyðe. c1000 Ags. Ps. cvi. 29 [cvii. 30] And he hi on hælo hyþe gelædde. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 242/1 Hyþe, where bootys ryve to londe, or stonde, stacio. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iv. sig. Dvij In an oyster bote, a lyttle beyonde quene hythe. 1723 Banff Burgh Rec. in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1893) II. 219 [The shipmasters crave] ane further reparation to be made one Gutherie's Hyth. 1790 T. Pennant Of London 473 (R.) When the hithe fell into the hands of King Stephen, he bestowed it on William de Ypres. 1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 205 Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. Introd. 11 The different hythes or landing-places along the river-bank. 1897 F. W. Maitland Domesday Bk. & Beyond 189 Hythes outside the walls. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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