| 单词 | winter road |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswinter road winter road n. Canadian a road or route used in the winter, typically made of compacted snow or ice ploughed over a frozen waterway or ground impassable in the summer. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > used at specific season summer road1745 winter road1801 1801 A. Mackenzie Voy. from Montreal vi. 84 One of the natives who followed us, called it the Winter Road River. 1808 H. Gray Lett. from Canada (1809) 254 The country people who first form the winter roads on the snow, direct their Carioles by the nearest course where the snow is most level; and they go in as straight a line as possible, to the place where they are destined. 1888 Amer. Law Reg. 36 235 The plaintiff's injury came from the defendant's carelessness in cutting a hole through the ice, and leaving it exposed, upon or near a place where there had been a winter road for more than 20 years. 1916 Yukon Territory 194 In the summer of 1902 the government built a winter road between Dawson and Whitehorse, a distance of approximately 333 miles. 2016 Vancouver (Brit. Columbia) Sun (Nexis) 4 Jan. a10 During the winter, remote communities receive supplies from winter roads, which are becoming less reliable due to warming on the ‘front line’ of climate change. < as lemmas |
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