单词 | reed-rond |
释义 | > as lemmasreed-rond reed-rond n. (also reed-rand) [ < reed n.1 + rand n.1] Chiefly English regional (East Anglian) (now rare) a thicket of reeds in a marsh or in the shallows of a river; cf. rand n.1 1b. ΚΠ 1782 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. Norfolk (1787) II. 277 The water is thrown from the grazable parts into these reed-ronds. a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 40 A ‘reed-rand’, on our rivers and broads is a margin overgrown with reeds. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. Prel. 17 Long lines of reed-rond, emerald in spring. 1917 Times 27 Nov. 11/5 We can only trudge by her tidal waters, past old, fern-clad storehouses and wharves, through sedge-beds and reed ronds, to the glittering apron of her weir. < as lemmas |
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