单词 | galloway dike |
释义 | Galloway diken. Scottish. ‘A wall built firmly at the bottom, but no thicker at the top than the length of the single stones, loosely piled the one above the other’ (Jamieson). ΚΠ 1791 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. I. 451 The..most general fence is the Galloway dike. 1814 W. Scott Diary 4 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. iv. 143 It would be easy to form a good farm by enclosing the ground with Galloway dykes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1791 |
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