| 单词 | arm of the sea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasarm of the sea a. In full arm of the sea. A stretch of water, esp. a long or narrow one, which projects or extends from the main body of the sea. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea > in sea fleetc893 pillOE arm of the seaOE sounda1300 lougha1387 bracec1400 lough1423 firthc1425 loch1427 resort1477 estuarya1552 inshot1555 mere1574 portlet1577 fret1587 frith1600 sea-gate1605 creek1625 sea-lochc1645 wick1664 fjord1674 voea1688 backwater1867 strait gulf1867 ocean-arm1871 ria1887 fjard1904 geo1934 OE tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 19 On westhealfe on oþre healfe þæs sæs earmes is Ibærnia þæt igland. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2721 (MED) No hunte þou..Biȝond þe arm of þe se. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 49 Affrica and Europa beþ departed atweyne by þe arme of þe see. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 30 (MED) Him behoues passe by þe Reed See, whilk es ane arme of þe west see. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 39 The yle of Monia..is departede from Northe Wales..by a lytelle arme of the see [L. maris brachio]. a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 172 The cyte is well walled, and there commeth to it an arme of the See. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Vincent of Beauvais in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 65 The Great sea, out of which the arme of S. George proceedeth. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 117 A huge arme of the Sea, which cutting in betweene the Land by the West, watreth Cornwall on the right hand, and Wales on the left. 1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. iii. 75 St. Christopher carried Christ a Pick-pack over an Arm of the Sea. 1727 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. III. i. 14 That Arm of the Sea which is now called the Humber. 1776 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals V. 341 This narrow sea is an arm of the ocean which throughout all its extent does not receive any river from the coast of Egypt, and very little from the other coasts. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Appin Extensive arms of the sea, which bear the name of lochs. 1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 375/1 The immense arm of the sea was none the less impressive for being viewed..while sitting in the cockpit of my canoe. 1916 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. i. 8 By the study of the fossils we can further usually tell whether the water was ocean or lake, fresh or salt, open sea or arm of the sea. 2005 East River (Greater Astoria Hist. Soc.) i. 9 The East River is essentially an arm of the ocean. < as lemmas |
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