| 单词 | whitethorn hedge |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhitethorn hedge C1. General attributive, as whitethorn bush, whitethorn hedge, whitethorn tree, etc. ΚΠ 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 73 Matthiolus holdeth yt our haw tre or whyte thorne tre is Oxyacantha. 1640 J. Gower tr. Ovid Festivalls vi. 127 A white-thorn-wand he her doth give. 1731 J. Tull New Horse-houghing Husbandry 68 White-Thorns will not prosper set in the Gaps of a White-Thorn Hedge. 1768 A. Young Six Weeks Tour Southern Counties 79 A white-thorn fence is impenetrable. 1814 Chron. 74/2 in Ann. Reg. 1813 He struck her so violently with a white-thorn stick..that she fell to the ground. 1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 45 Or short note of the changing thrush Above him in the white-thorn bush. 1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean I. xiv. 248 The torch of white-thorn-wood. 1956 S. H. Bell Erin's Orange Lily v. 70 They were not as old as the whitethorn bush their grandfather feared as a child. 2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers ii. 44 When out walking he would ever as instructed give decent berth to the whitethorn trees. < as lemmas |
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