| 单词 | brace of st george |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBrace of St. George An arm; esp. an ‘arm’ of the sea or other large body of water. Brace of St. George = medieval Latin brachium Sancti Georgii (Du Cange): the Bosporus or the Hellespont. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > arm or branch branch1297 arma1398 bracec1400 ramification1653 divarication1664 the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea > in sea fleetc893 pillOE arm of the seaOE sounda1300 lougha1387 bracec1400 lough1423 firthc1425 loch1427 resort1477 estuarya1552 inshot1555 mere1574 portlet1577 fret1587 frith1600 sea-gate1605 creek1625 sea-lochc1645 wick1664 fjord1674 voea1688 backwater1867 strait gulf1867 ocean-arm1871 ria1887 fjard1904 geo1934 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. xi. 126 He schal..passe the wature, that ys cleped the Brace of seynt George. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 139 Guided his boot ouer the braas or arme of the see. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. iii. 67 That renneth a longe thurgh the Royame of ynde, And departeth in to many armes or braces. 1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. xlviijv Ye sayd streightes otherwyse called the brache of seynt George. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxiii. sig. Hvi The stroke..cut asonder a great brase of a benche that stode before the bedde. < as lemmas |
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