单词 | strath |
释义 | strathn. Scottish and Irish English. 1. A broad, flat river valley bounded by hills or high ground. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > wide valea1400 strath1508 1508 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 232/2 xi chalder of ate mele to be deliverit be the tenentis of the Strath of Menteth. c1630 in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1907) II. 169 Glengairie is the next countrie to Loghairgak and there one litle stray betwixt the head of Loghloghie and the other fresh water logh which is called Erigh and this litle strath is one myll of lenth. 1720 A. Ramsay Poems 359 Those fair Straths that water'd are With Tay and Tweed's smooth Streams. 1753 Trial J. Stewart 203 The deponent answered, that he had seen no person from the strath (or vale) of Appin. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xiii. 187 A ridge of distant and blue hills, which formed the southern boundary of the strath, or valley. View more context for this quotation 1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age xii. 168 The river Clyde..flows towards the north-west in a valley that gradually expands to a broad open strath. 1937 N. M. Gunn Highland River ii. 43 The salmon is an individualist, and not until he has penetrated straths and moors and mountains..does he show a personal interest in his kind. 2007 Scots Mag. Mar. 273/2 A time when much of the straths of Endrick and the Carron Rivers were known as the Carron Bog. 2. A stretch of flat land adjacent to a body of water. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near river > [noun] haleOE haugh1487 strath1549 wartha1641 freshes1652 intervale1653 interval1684 riverfront1751 river bottom1752 creek-bottom1822 flat1852 1549 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 12 96 Iniust withhalding of ane strath of gyrs and ane watter fisching..pertenying to the said toun. 1570–1 in G. Donaldson Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1963) VI. 214/1 Silvas et lie straythis de Inchedown. 1699 G. Turnbull Diary (1893) 383 The place is pretty pleasant, close by Forth watarside, att the foot of Craigmor, betwixt which and the watar there is a strath very proper for walking. 1762 London Chron. 7 Sept. 243/2 Martinico can be divided by a strath or open flatt, that runs across from Fort Royal Bay to the N. E. and a fine road. 1835 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. No. 7. 295 The dales..comprehend a beautiful strath of land, that runs along the lower part of the parish, and is bounded on the one side by the Avon. 1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland xiii. 336 Strath; a term used in many parts of Ireland to denote the level watery meadow-land along a river. 1985 S. Hood Storm from Paradise (1988) 42 The American servicemen..operate the great listening-post in the flat land of the strath beyond the river. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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