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单词 hause
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hausehawsen.

Brit. /hɔːs/, U.S. /hɔs/, /hɑs/, Scottish English /hɔs/
Etymology: modern northern dialect form of halse n.1 neck, used in a special sense.
Scottish and northern dialect.
A narrower and lower neck or connecting ridge between two heights or summits; a col; the regular name in the English Lake district and on the Scottish Border. Generally at the head of two stream valleys which descend opposite sides of the hause, forming a pass over the ridge or mountain chain at this point; e.g. the Hause between Fleetwith and the Newlands Mountains crossed by Honister Pass, Esk Hause between Scawfell Pike and Bowfell at the head of Eskdale, Buttermere Hause, Deepdale Hause, etc.
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1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 91/1 Hose or horse, a deep vale between two mountains.
1786 W. Gilpin Lakes Cumberland (1808) I. xv. 229 The mountain over which we passed, is called, in the language of the country, a hawse.
1822 Lights & Shadows Scot. Life 114 (Jam.) A storm is coming down from the Cairnibrae~hawse.
1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 218 Between Esk Hause and Bow Fell is a mountain called Hanging Knott, which can be scaled from the top of the Hause in about twenty minutes.
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