单词 | to landward |
释义 | > as lemmasto landward a. to landward: in the country, as opposed to the town. Scottish. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1424 Sc. Acts Jas. I c. 21 (1814) II. 8/1 Þai..sall haue a certane takyn to landwart of þe schireff & in burowis of þe aldermen & þe balȝeis. 1457 Sc. Acts Jas. I c. 21 (1814) II. 49/1 Within burowis and commonys to landwart. a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 276 Als~weall within townes as to landwarte. 1753 Scots Mag. Apr. 203/1 No part of the parish is to landward. to (the) landward 2. to (the) landward: towards or in the direction of the land; on or to the land side (of). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > [adverb] > to alandc1300 to (the) landward?c1450 landward1610 landwards1833 ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 631 Whils þai wer þus to landward boune. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 77 In burghis, to landwart and to sie. 1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 352v Vppon the innermoste necke to the landewarde, is a tufte of trees. 1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. i. 68 Where the mountaine lookes to land-ward of the Ile. a1674 J. Milton Brief Hist. Moscovia (1682) i. 4 To the Land-ward [stand] Mezen, and Slobotca..; To Seaward lies the Cape of Candinos. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 71 As for Fortifications to the Landward they had none. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xii. 86 Except to landward, there is nothing to arrest the eye. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. iii. 41 On the broad moor to landward of the town. < as lemmas |
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