单词 | hause |
释义 | hausehawsen. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ridge > [noun] > connecting saddling1697 saddle1779 hause1781 nek1834 col1853 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1781 |
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