† isthmn.
Obsolete.
= isthmus n.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > isthmus
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necka1544
balka1552
isthmus1555
distrait1562
strait1562
strictland1577
land-passage1601
land-strait1601
isthm1609
land-neck1619
land-connection1876
thoroughfare1876
land-bridge1897
tombolo1897
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiii. vi. 228 A necke or Isthm of land.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 110 Which, by a very narrow Isthim or necke of land groweth to the rest of the Iland.
a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xiii. 104 That Isthme betweene the Euxine & the Caspian seas.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. viii. 319 Some Isthmes have been eat through by the Sea, and others cut by the spade. View more context for this quotation
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