| 单词 | brash-ice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrash-ice A mass or heap of fragments; applied to (a) loose broken rock forming the highest stratum beneath the soil of certain districts: rubble; (cf. cornbrash n.); (b) fragments of crushed ice, hence brash-ice; (c) refuse boughs or branches, hedge clippings, twigs. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [noun] > loose stones scree1709 brasha1722 ratchel1747 stammerers1793 slithers1805 shingle1959 the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > broken ice porridge ice1820 brash1837 land-trash1856 trash1856 trash-ice1864 posh1876 rubble1876 a1722 [implied in: E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 106 I have eight or nine acres of brashy ground. (at brashy adj.1)]. 1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 283 The soil a loam, on a stone brash clay. 1837 G. G. Macdougall tr. W. A. Graah Narr. Exped. East Coast Greenland 62 A stream of loose brash-ice proceeding from the ice-blinks. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xiv. 102 Icy fragments or ‘brash’. 1882 in Standard 2 Sept. 2/4 On the light stone brash estates birds are very small and scarce. < as lemmas |
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