| 单词 | scots mile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasScots mile Scots mile n. now historical = Scotch mile n. at Scotch adj. and n.3 Compounds 3; (allusive) a distance which feels long or tedious. ΚΠ 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 415 The Hungarian miles are the longest vpon earth, for euery one of theirs, is sixe of our Scots miles, nine English. 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 7 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 557 We think na on the lang Scots miles..That lie between us and our hame. 1867 W. McDowall Hist. Burgh Dumfries xxxiii. 444 The first postmaster of the Burgh, his charge extending twelve Scots miles to the town of Annan. 1964 Times 28 Oct. 12/7 Seven miles of steady jog-trot (at times we wondered if they were Scots miles). 2003 D. Iredale & J. Barrett Discovering Local Hist. (ed. 2) 54 Even among those who agreed to use a standard Scots mile of 1976 yards there might be no agreement on the length of the yard. < as lemmas |
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