| 单词 | hog's back cloud |
| 释义 | > as lemmashog's back cloud c. New Zealand. Chiefly in form hog's back. More fully hog's back cloud. A cloud with a distinctive arched top, often considered to herald bad weather. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > storm-cloud thunder-cloud1697 storm-cloud1822 thunderhead1851 storm-breeder1867 hogback1933 1933 N.Z. Alpine Jrnl. 5 xx. 180 Dark clouds..a bevy of ‘hog-backs’. 1933 N.Z. Alpine Jrnl. 5 xx. 235 A ‘hog's back’ warned that further storms were brewing. 1940 W. S. Gilkison Peaks, Packs 24 He showed me a hogsback... Term applied to a particularly unwelcome cloud only too well-known to climbers, and almost invariably heralding a north-west storm. 1971 N.Z. Listener 19 Apr. 56/5 In the end they saw some hogsbacks up above the col so they tossed it in. 1999 Nelson Mail (N.Z.) (Nexis) 1 Jan. 11 Landscapes baked bare to just boulders and sharp Marlborough mountains topped by tell-tale ‘hog's back’ clouds have in some cases been painted quite literally, complete with flying pigs. < as lemmas |
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