| 释义 |
glack Sc.|glak|
Also 6 glak.
[a. Gael. glac valley, hollow, etc.]
1. A deep and narrow mountain-valley.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 147 Herbis that in the mont than grew, And glak and glen in hole and mony hirne. a1800Water-kelpie ix. in Scott Minstr. Scott. Bord. (1810) III. 389 Frae yon deep glack at Catla's back. 1826G. Beattie John o' Arnha' in Life & Poems 229 Deep i the glack, and round the well. 1888D. Beveridge Betw. the Ochils & Forth vii. 98 A beautiful defile or glack, as it is called in that part of the country.
2. a. The fork of a tree. b. A spot where roads diverge.
18..Donald & Flora 155 (Jam.) That is the spreading branch that used to shade us, And that's the braid wide glack we used to sit on. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxv. (1873) 145 Yon was him't we met at the glack o' the roads. |