单词 | strid |
释义 | stridn. The proper name of the narrowest part of the channel of the Wharfe between level rocks at Bolton Priory; hence, any similar gorge or chasm. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > chasm or cleft chinec1050 earth-chinea1300 kinc1330 chimneyc1374 haga1400 riftc1400 refta1425 dungeonc1475 rupturec1487 gaping1539 rent1603 chasm1621 abrupt1624 hiulcitya1681 clove1779 score1790 strid1862 fent1878 1815 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 147 The Striding-place is called The Strid.] 1862 C. Kingsley Water-babies iii, in Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 441/2 On through narrow strids and roaring cataracts, where Tom was deafened and blinded for a moment by the rushing water. 1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage II. xli. 190 Any pauses occurring, he was the one guilty of them; she did not allow them to be barrier chasms, or ‘strids’ for the leap with effort. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1862 |
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