| 单词 | pismire hill |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspismire hill pismire hill n. (also pismire's hill) now regional = anthill n. 1a; (also, in quot. 1781) = anthill n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > that form ant-hills > ant-hill anthilleOE ant bedeOE pismire hill1440 maur-hill?c1475 maur house?c1475 ant heap1591 molehill1610 ant-hillock1656 bank1667 sprout hill1766 formicary1816 ant mound1830 formicarium1834 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 402 Pysmeryshylle, formicarium. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 281 A Pismoure hylle, formicecarium. 1652 R. Carpenter Perfect-law of God 104 They creep out of their holes, and run here and there in Multitudes; as animates Pulvisculus, the living and busie Dust yonder on the Pismire-Hill. 1781 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 149 See a figure of one of those nests in Salmon's Universal Traveller, in the map of Gambia, where it is called a Pismire Hill. 1808 J. Cottle Fall of Cambria II. xviii. 83 All my eminence Sank to a Pismire's hill. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 203 Where the pismire hills abound. a1903 W. Heckley in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 523/2 She must 'ev been rowling in a pissimire hill to git so mony on to her. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 213/1 Pismire-hill, an anthill. < as lemmas |
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