| 释义 |
mole-head
[f. mole n.3 + head n.1 18 b.]
= pier-head.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. vi. 4 b, All the people..runne to the mole head to see vs enter into the port. Ibid. vii. 6 b, We saw al along the mollehead the people with the souldiers. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1536/2 The pierre was not finished by 350 foot so far as the foundation thereof (which he called the Molehead) was laid. c1710Torrington Mem. (1889) 141 To the southward of the mould head. 1802Eng. Encycl. VIII. 431/1 Ports—formed by throwing a strong mound..across the harbour's mouth to some island or rock—called mole-heads. 1836Marryat Midsh. Easy xxxiii, Was he to be thrown over the molehead to the fishes? |