| 单词 | dogger bank |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDogger Bank Dogger Bank n. a large bank or shoal in the North Sea between England and Denmark. [Now frequently as a place name without article, e.g.: 2004 C. Connelly Attention All Shipping 90 In 1931 Dogger Bank again hit the headlines as the epicentre of the most violent earthquake ever to hit Britain, measuring 5.5 on the Richter Scale. ΚΠ 1666 London Gaz. No. 31/4 Some few Dogger boates plying about the Dogger banks, whereof five labor to infest those parts. 1782 R. Livingston Let. 7 Jan. in B. Franklin Papers (2001) XXXVI. 397 The Cod fishery upon the dogger bank and in other parts of the European Seas are claimed exclusively by no Nation. 1885 Lyell's Elem. Geol. (ed. 4) vi. 81 That great shoal called the Dogger-bank, about sixty miles east of the coast of Northumberland, and occupying an area about as large as Wales..in its shallower parts is less than forty feet under water. 2002 C. Pleshakov Tsar's Last Armada iv. 96 The detachment was passing the Dogger Bank, a large shoal..off the coast of England. < as lemmas |
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