单词 | high-mounting |
释义 | > as lemmashigh-mounting high-mounting adj. ΚΠ 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 32v In the streight passage of the valie betwixt the extensed and highe mounting rockes. 1611 B. Jonson Catiline ii. sig. D4 I'am not taken With a Cob-Swan, or a high-mounting Bull, As foolish Leda, and Europa were. View more context for this quotation 1789 J. F. Stanfield Guinea Voy. i. 7 The refluent boat evades the sight, High-mounting waves the vessels disunite. 1880 A. Trollope Duke's Children I. xvii. 200 Within that little body there was a high-mounting heart. 1916 J. Matt tr. D. W. Switalski in G. Pfeilschifter German Culture, Catholicism & World War (Amer. ed.) viii. 147 A mass-phenomenon which, as a high-mounting raging ocean wave,..angrily sweeps before it everything that attempts to block its path. 2009 E. Thalheimer Cycling in Italy 320 If you're riding a mountain bike and riding off-road you'll probably want high-mounting front panniers to give you more clearance. < as lemmas |
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