单词 | emmet-hill |
释义 | > as lemmasemmet-hill emmet-hill n. ΚΠ c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 100 (MED) Take the white that bene emonge empt hillis that bene clepid empt hors. 1583 M. M. S. tr. B. de las Casas Spanish Colonie sig. A All ful of people, as an Emmote hill of Emmots. 1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. x. 95 The Cowes giving blood for milk might proceed from another natural cause, viz. from lying upon an Ant or Emmot hill. 1796 R. Broome Simkin Redivivus to Simon 28 As well might arithmetic set about counting The ratio an emmet-hill bears to a mountain. 1855 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 27 5/1 The meadows..were, only a few years since, sheep-common, covered with emmet-hills, brambles, rushes, &c. 1948 J. E. Minter Chagres ii. 8 Ant bears probe the man-high emmet hills with their long, sticky tongues. < as lemmas |
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