单词 | haff |
释义 | haffn. A shallow freshwater lagoon found at a river mouth, esp. one of those on the Baltic coast. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > lagoon wash1530 lagoon1612 jheel1805 sea-lake1816 haff1859 pound1867 pond1926 1859 S. O. Beeton Dict. Univ. Information 582/2 Haff, haf, an extensive bay or gulf of Pomerania... 2. Of East Prussia... 3. A very extensive bay of the Baltic. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 294/1 The shore of the Baltic is generally low. Along the southern coast it is for the most part sandy... Where streams come down, there are often fresh-water lakes termed haffs, which are separated from the sea by narrow spits called nehrungs. 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 447/1 The ‘haffs’ or lagoons on the Baltic. 1933 Discovery June 203/1 He writes from experience of fishing in general—on Exmoor, in a Prussian haff, in Cornwall, on Scottish waters, and in Ireland. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1859 |
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