horse latitudesn.

Etymology: Origin of the name uncertain: see the quots. for statements and conjectures.

With plural agreement. The belt of calms and light airs which borders the northern edge of the N.E. trade-winds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > in relation to climate or weather conditions > specific

temperate zone1556

horse latitudes1777

sunland1827

iceland1842

pole of cold1850

storm-area1853

cloud-belt1860

cloud-ring1860

snow-belt1874

taiga1888

storm-zone1889

storm-belt1891

cold pole1909

icebox1909

1777 G. Forster Voy. round World II. 581 The latitudes where these calms chiefly reign, are named the horse-latitudes by mariners..because they are fatal to horses and other cattle which are transported to the last mentioned continent [America].

1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 330 A dead calm for five days in the horse latitudes.

1850 Maury Notice to Mariners (ed. 2) 10.

1851 Maury Winds & Currents 38.

1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) §514.

1883 R. H. Scott Elem. Meteorol. xiv. 268 The Horse Latitudes, a title which Mr. Laughton derives from the Spanish El Golfo de las Yeguas, the Mares' Sea, from its unruly and boisterous nature..in contradistinction to the Trade-wind zone, El Golfo de las Damas, so called from the pleasant weather to be met with there.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	horse latitudes
释义	horse latitudesn. Etymology: Origin of the name uncertain: see the quots. for statements and conjectures. With plural agreement. The belt of calms and light airs which borders the northern edge of the N.E. trade-winds. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > in relation to climate or weather conditions > specific temperate zone1556 horse latitudes1777 sunland1827 iceland1842 pole of cold1850 storm-area1853 cloud-belt1860 cloud-ring1860 snow-belt1874 taiga1888 storm-zone1889 storm-belt1891 cold pole1909 icebox1909 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World II. 581 The latitudes where these calms chiefly reign, are named the horse-latitudes by mariners..because they are fatal to horses and other cattle which are transported to the last mentioned continent [America]. 1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 330 A dead calm for five days in the horse latitudes. 1850 Maury Notice to Mariners (ed. 2) 10. 1851 Maury Winds & Currents 38. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) §514. 1883 R. H. Scott Elem. Meteorol. xiv. 268 The Horse Latitudes, a title which Mr. Laughton derives from the Spanish El Golfo de las Yeguas, the Mares' Sea, from its unruly and boisterous nature..in contradistinction to the Trade-wind zone, El Golfo de las Damas, so called from the pleasant weather to be met with there. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1777
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