单词 | intervale |
释义 | intervalen. Now North American. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of time between events or interval waya1300 distancec1330 interstition1390 spacea1400 pastimea1513 vacance1533 intermission?1566 vacation1567 intervallum1574 interim1579 between-timea1586 wem1599 parenthesis1600 intermedium1611 betweena1616 fore-while?1615 interpolation1615 vacancya1616 interval1616 interstitium1624 slatcha1625 interspace1629 intermissa1633 between-spacea1641 interregnum1659 intervalea1661 interlapse1666 interlude1751 in-between1815 lapse1817 intermezzo1851 meanwhile1872 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22444 Queþer þai [sc. signs of Doomsday] sal hal on rau bitide, Or enterwal [Coll. Phys. enterwall, Gött. enter-uale] bituix þam bide.] a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 65 In that intervale after the Sun is set..and before candles are set up. 1682 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1859) III. 113 This Court in the intervales of the Generall Court doe desire and impower the Governour and Assistants [etc.]. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [noun] > intervening space spacec1350 interspacec1420 interval1489 distance1559 intervacuuma1633 vacuity1658 intervale1683 1683 in New Jersey Archives (1880) I. 431 Be sure that..no Street be laid close to the back of another without an Intervale of at least a pair of Butts. 1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus vi. 144 The Army in Three Lines, all closed, without any Intervails. 3. In North America: A low level tract of land, esp. along a river; = interval n. 4. Also attributive.‘Originally in New England, but now used in some other parts of U.S. and in Canada. The sense is the same as that of haugh in Scotland.’ ( N.E.D.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near river > [noun] haleOE haugh1487 strath1549 wartha1641 freshes1652 intervale1653 interval1684 riverfront1751 river bottom1752 creek-bottom1822 flat1852 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 365 This City of Fez is situate upon the bodies and twice double devalling faces..of two hills..; the intervale, or low valley betweene both..being the Center.] 1653 in H. S. Nourse Early Rec. Lancaster, Mass. (1884) 27 Thirty acors of uppland and fortie acors of Entervale land. 1659 in Nourse Hist. Harvard (1894) 16 Still Riuer farm bounded Southwest by the enteruail. a1704 W. Hubbard Gen. Hist. New Eng. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1816) 2nd Ser. V. 22 Fruitfull spots of land, such as they call intervail land, in levells and champain ground..neere the banks of great rivers. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. Pref. 6 Another word..which perhaps is not more known in England, viz. intervale..is well understood in all parts of New-England to distinguish the low-land adjacent to the fresh rivers, which is frequently overflowed by the freshets. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 35 By intervales we mean those low lands which are adjacent to the rivers. 1856 J. G. Whittier Mary Garvin i From the heart of Waumbek Methna, from the lake that never fails, Falls the Saco in the green lap of Conway's intervales. 1884 S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 108 The spring freshets flood these wide valleys, and produce what is called ‘intervale’ land of great fertility. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1653 |
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