| 单词 | to furrow one's way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto furrow (out, up) one's way b. quasi-transitive, as in to furrow (out, up) one's way. Of a river: to excavate (a channel), to force itself along a channel. ΚΠ 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 820 Maragnon is far greater, whose waters having furrowed a Channell of six thousand miles, in the length of his winding passage [etc.]. a1639 Wotton Ps. civ, in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 248 There go the ships, that furrow out their way. a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iv. iii. 241 Let thy choler furrow up and make a way to that Island whereto none can arrive. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. v. 492 And I have pass'd, Furrowing my way. 1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius vi The circular wrinkle slowly furrowed its way round Barker's mouth. 1890 H. M. Stanley In Darkest Afr. II. xxviii. 259 The Rami-lulu had eventually furrowed and grooved itself deeply through. < as lemmas |
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