单词 | scotch sea |
释义 | > as lemmasScotch Sea ΚΠ 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xvi. 424 The wall from Tyne to the Scotch Sea was made for strength. a1650 Index Buchanan's Index Hist. MS (Edinb. Univ.) Mare Scoticum the firth of Forth the Scotsh sea, so called because it was once the march betuix Scotland and England. 1704 tr. I. de la Peyrère Acct. Iseland in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. II. 437/1 These Iselanders were very powerful in the Deucalidonian or Scotch Sea, and perhaps carried from thence their Commerce as far as Normandy. 1769 tr. W. Goodall Introd. Hist. & Antiq. Scotl. xiv. 177 Kenneth of Alpin is said to have invaded Pictavia..and usurped the whole land from the Scotch sea to the river Tweed. 1783 New Hist. Scotl. x. 101 The boundaries of the Scotch dominions towards Stirling was the Forth..; the Forth was from that time to be called the Scotch Sea. 1824 J. Chitty Treat. Laws Commerce & Manuf. I. iv. 102 Northward is the sea anciently known by the several names of Hyperborean, Deucaledonian, and Caledonian Ocean, now the Scotch sea, in which are situated the Orcades, Thule, and other islands. 1850 M. Stewart Remarks Subj. of Lang. 167 The whole of the country north of the Forth, the Scotch Sea, appears to have been held by military tenure. < as lemmas |
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