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单词 gorce
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gorcen.

Forms: Also Middle English gorte, 1600s gors, 1700s goss.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman gortz, plural of gort (also Old French gord , gourt , modern French dialect gour , gourd ) < Latin gurgit-em , gurges , whirlpool. The form gorce was taken later for singular and a plural formed from it. See also gore n.4
Obsolete.
a. A whirlpool.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > whirlpool > [noun]
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whirlpool1530
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hurlpool1552
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1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiv. i A lytil gorte..wherin Sylla bayned her accustomably whan she hade hete.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 5 b A deep pit of water, a gors or gulf.
b. (See quot. 1706.)
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > in a river > natural
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1350 Act 25 Edw. III Stat. iv. c. 4 Pur ce que Communes passages de neefs & batelx en les grantz rivers dEngleterre si sont sovent foitz destourbez par le lever de gortz.
1472 Act 12 Edw. IV c. 7 Ascuns..gorces,..molyns, mille~dammez, etc.]
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Gorce,..any stop in a River, such as Wears, Mills, Stakes, etc. which hinder the free Passage of Ships or Boats.
1742 C. Viner Gen. Abridgm. Law & Equity XVI. 23 Nusance..lies for levying of a Goss to intercept the Course of Fish coming from the Sea.
1891 North in Times 13 May 3/5 The construction of such a gort..was an act of ownership.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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