| 单词 | hogback mountain |
| 释义 | > as lemmashogback mountain a. A hill, mountain, or ridge with steeply sloping sides either side of a narrow crest which rises towards the centre. Also attributive in hogback mountain, hogback hill, hogback ridge.Frequently (with capital initial) in the names of such summits. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ridge > [noun] > hogback hogback1790 swine back1826 horseback1851 α. β. 1790 J. Hassell Tour Isle of Wight II. xxxiv. 246 The ridge of hills, known by the name of the Hog's Back.1800 in Vermont Hist. Soc. Proc. 1920–21 (1921) 168 Whats call'd the hogs back is a ridge of mountains on the north side (of the Onion river, Vt.).1827 J. F. Cooper Red Rover i The hog's back over which the water pitches.1834 W. F. Napier Hist. War Peninsula (Rtldg.) II. xiii. ii. 209 A rugged hill..joined by a hog's-back ridge to the..mountain spine.1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 388 Our way runs along a hogsback, till we reach the lake of Fur.1863 G. T. Lowth Wanderer West. France 216 There is a long elevated line of hill, a hog's-back, running from south to north.1973 Guardian 23 Jan. 13/1 The Prime Minister..will be there, in his retreat on the hogs-back of the Delimara peninsula.1998 J. Cope Mod. Antiquarian 196/2 They would then have climbed on to the barrow-lined Ridgeway which follows the east-west hogsback along Cherhill Down.1790 in J. Morse Geogr. Made Easy (ed. 2) 210 The Tryon and Hogback mountains are 220 miles northwest from Charleston. 1826 R. Mills Statistics S. Carolina 578 The Hogback mountain..is difficult of ascent. 1840 J. P. Kennedy Quodlibet 26 The farm where he now lives at the foot of the Hogback. 1847 in Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (31st Congress, 1st Sess.) (1849) No. 5. ii. 731 The banks [of a river]..worn in some places into hog-backs. 1896 Advance (Chicago) 1 Oct. 433 The dry knobs, or hog-backs, where the prairie breaks down to the streams. 1916 Geogr. Jrnl. 48 132 The fertile basins..are scored by small hogback ridges formed by the stronger beds. 1950 W. O. Douglas Of Men & Mountains xviii. 247 At points the hogback is only a few feet wide, with the ground dropping 1000 feet or more on each side at a dizzy pitch of 60 degrees. 2003 D. Gutteridge Solemn Vows i. 11 He's on foot now, climbing that hogback. < as lemmas |
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