| 单词 | the borders |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Borders a. (English History and Scottish History.) the Border, the Borders: the boundary between England and Scotland; the district adjoining this boundary on both sides; the English and Scottish borderland. (The term appears to have been first established in Scotland, where the English border, being the only one it has, was emphatically the border.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > [noun] > border country threap-land1259 marchc1300 the Border1535 debatable1551 debatable land1587 threap-ground1825 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 471 Gif thift or reif wes maid vpon the bordour. c1536 D. Lindsay Compl. 384 Baith throw the heland and the bordour. 1601 Act 43 Eliz. xiii, Pream. To pay..Black-mail unto divers and sundry inhabiting upon or near the Borders. 1663 J. Lamont Diary July (1830) 164 A student of philosophie in St Androws, went away with ane Agnes Allane..to the Border, to be maried at the Half marke church. 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) IV. 46 Laws relating to the Borders. 1773 A. Grant Let. 17 May in Lett. from Mountains (1806) I. 96 Mr. G—y is a native of the border. 1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xii. 258 Through all the wide Border his steed was the best. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. i. 14 All the way from the border to the Highland line. 1881 J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde v. 104 Like his neighbour chiefs on the Borders. < as lemmas |
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