单词 | mountlet |
释义 | mountletn. Chiefly poetic. Now rare. A small mountain. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > hillock barrowc885 burrowc885 berryc1000 knapc1000 knollc1000 ball1166 howa1340 toft1362 hillocka1382 tertre1480 knowec1505 hilleta1552 hummock1555 mountainettea1586 tump1589 butt1600 mountlet1610 mounture1614 colline1641 tuft1651 knock?17.. tummock1789 mound1791 tomhan1811 koppie1848 tuffet1877 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 15 Those snowie mountelets, through which doe creepe The milkie rivers, that ar inly bred. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island x. xlii. 145 Could we see, On these white mountlets daintier apples be. 1672 E. Benlowes On Oxford 47 in Oxonii Encomium That Tempe Baths, Groves, Mountlets yields, Natures green Silk each Hedge arrays. 1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) 128 See there, the Elysian islets... Their mountlets crowned By that beneficent stem, whose top..sheddeth cool bright showers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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