单词 | bankside |
释义 | banksiden. 1. The edge of a river; the area of land immediately adjacent to a river; a riverbank. Formerly also: †the shore of a lake or sea (obsolete). Cf. bank n.1 9, 10.Also the name of a district in London, on the southern bank of the River Thames; see e.g. quots. 1546, 1941, and cf. bank n.1 9c. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] sea-warthc888 sea-rimOE sea-strandc1000 sandc1275 rive1296 bankc1350 sea-banka1375 sea-coasta1400 coastc1400 warthc1450 ripec1475 landsidec1515 seashore1526 banksidec1540 brinish brink1594 shorea1616 ore1652 outland1698 sea beach1742 table-shore1849 playa1898 treaty coast1899 treaty shore1901 beach1903 the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] banksidec1540 coast1607 beach1756 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > area characterized by brothels or prostitution > specific bank1519 banksidec1540 Whetstones-park1682 Soho1818 Yoshiwara1870 Reeperbahn1974 c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 91 He..bowet fro the batell to þe bonke side. 1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes f. 29 I thynke a man myght fynde as honest stuffe as thys, in the scooles of my lorde of wynchestres rentes at the banke syde at London, yf he had nede of yt. 1559 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 200 The Quen grace..rod a-longe by the banke-syd. a1618 W. Raleigh Let. in Remains (1661) 238 When he came to the bank-side to Land. 1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iv. xx. 313 Being landed at the banke-side of the Lake. 1681 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 3) xii. 254 This Net is either thrown off from the Bank-side, or from a Boat. 1732 tr. J. de La Roque Voy. Arabia Fœlix i. 21 He sent an Officer to the Bank-side where I landed. 1787 W. Chambers tr. C. Fredericke in tr. Short Acct. Marratta State 56 Make fast your boat to the bankside. 1811 H. Card Beauford I. xii. 280 Lady Emily, advancing to the bank side, asked Oswald, if he had ever seen a more beautiful lilium aquarium. 1867 Times 7 Oct. Puts his hand into the water by the bankside. 1930 Oxf. Ann. Girls 133/1 He must have missed his footing on the bankside and been drawn down into one of the deep boiling-pots in the Tarretburn. 1941 G. Sampson Conc. Cambr. Hist. Eng. List. vi. 331 The most famous of all Elizabethan play-houses, The Globe in Bankside, Southwark. 2006 P. D. Armitage in G. Ziglio et al. Biol. Monitoring of Rivers i. 23 In certain rivers, the bankside may contribute most of the faunal diversity. 2. The sloping side of a mound or hill. Cf. bank n.1 1, 3. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun] > sloping side of bank bankside1586 the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > side lithOE sideOE hillside?a1400 braea1500 bankside1586 sidehill1607 sidelanda1722 1586 W. Webbe tr. Virgil Aeglogue ii., in Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. H.iiii By the scorcht banke sydes i'thy foote steppes stil I goe plodding. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 37 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) They can prettily shroud themselves under a bush or banke side. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 78 If wee knewe of any banke-sides that lay against the sunne..wee tooke them [sc. the hoggs]..to them, and lette them pingle aboute. 1664 S. Blake Compl. Gardeners Pract. 55 The place fit for it [sc. setting Oxslips] is on bank-sides; where they are once set they alwayes continue. 1771 D. Henry Compl. Eng. Farmer xxvi. 153 Some provident farmers, where shelter is wanting upon their farms, sow broom on banksides, or furze in dry corners. ?1795 G. Wright Compl. Bird-fancyer (new ed.) 41 They [sc. Robin-Red-Breasts] build in old houses, barns, hay-ricks, and bank-sides towards the top. 1834 Infant Hymnings 20 They are nestling together..In the hedge-row, the bank-side, or under the eaves. 1880 R. W. Procter Mem. Bygone Manch. i. 4 The opposite side of the road was more closely inhabited, both along the frontage and up the bank side. 1921 M. Hampden Bulb Gardening (1922) vi. 68 The Cornflower colour..in shrubbery glades, on bank sides by the house windows or doorsteps, on rockeries [etc.]. 2006 S. Virgo Begging Questions 233 The dog came round to meet us beside the house, and fell in at his heel as we started up the bankside. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1540 |
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