单词 | brae-side |
释义 | > as lemmasbrae-side brae-face, brae-head, brae-side; also, brae-laird n. (also braes-laird) ‘a proprietor of land on the southern declivity of the Grampians’ (Jamieson). brae-man n. one who lives among the hills; spec. one who lives on the southern slopes of the Grampians. ΚΠ 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 422 The brea-faces..are better fitted for sheep than cattle. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 285 He..took to the brae-side, and became a broken man. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. ii. 31 ‘I am, master’ answered the young Scot, ‘a braeman.’ 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 535 A splendid bonfire blazing from the brae-head. < as lemmas |
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