单词 | rocher |
释义 | rochern. A rock; (also) a rocky bank or hillside. Now rare (in later use only in French contexts). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [noun] > a rock stonec825 rocher?a1400 niggerhead1847 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 10041 Ilk an ile has a rochere & a water depe & clere. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 7081 (MED) Þere he fyndeþ latymers Þat leden hym to heiȝe rochers, To rochers and to wildernesse. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1427 (MED) Þenne such a glauer ande glam of gedered rachchez Ros þat þe rocherez rungen aboute. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 342 (MED) These vj kynges com down the rocher sore hem diffendinge. 1637 W. Harrison in S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield (1888) (at cited word) They grow out of such a rocher of stone that you would hardly thinke there were earth enough to nourish the rootes of the said trees. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses v. 65 A Rocher with his arms he then imbrac't. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads 224 They the prey let go To save it self i' th' woods or rochers high. 1837 Visitor 171/2 The montagnes, the aiguilles, the glaciers, the rochers, and the hameaux, have each characters of themselves altogether new to an untravelled eye. 1921 M. Cram in B. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1921 (1922) 137 Why not carry this fellow to the rochers, to-night after dark? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1400 |
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