| 单词 | mereing-hedge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmereing-hedge attributive. Designating features serving as or marking boundaries, as mereing-drain, mereing-fence, mereing-hedge, etc. ΚΠ 1769 R. French Let. 24 Jan. in A. Young Tour Ireland (1780) i. 219 He also made a deep mearing drain. 1846 T. Keightley Notes Bucolics & Georgics of Virgil 9 On this side is the meering or boundary-hedge of sallows between you and your next neighbour. 1865 W. White Eastern Eng. II. 194 A strip of land a rod in width, called a..mereing balk. 1911 J. Campbell (title) Mearing stones: leaves from my note-book on tramp in Donegal. 1928 R. A. S. Macalister Archæol. of Ireland i. 26 A mearing-wall (as boundary-walls are called in Ireland). 1933 Irish Press 10 Nov. 1/4 A huge earth bank which serves as a mearing fence between the lands. 1955 J. R. R. Tolkien Return of King (Map at end) Mering Stream. < as lemmas |
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