单词 | irish sea |
释义 | > as lemmasIrish Sea Irish Sea n. [compare post-classical Latin Mare Hibernicum (9th cent. or earlier), Welsh môr Iwerddon (12th cent.)] (the name of) the sea separating Ireland from England and Wales. ΚΠ c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 3183 (MED) Out of þe dragons mouþe tueye leomes þer stode..Þe oþer adde seue branches..& toward þe yrisse [a1400 Trin. Cambr. hyrische] se westward euene drowe. 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 67 Then came fro the Yrishe sea A bestyous fyshe. 1599 R. Hakluyt tr. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 63 There stand certaine trees vpon the shore of the Irish sea, bearing fruit like unto a gourd. 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie i. sig. Dd3 Anglesey, is an Iland situate in the Irish Sea, over against Carnarvonshire in North-Wales. 1788 Eng. Described 77 Devonshire..is bounded by the Irish sea on the North. 1850 Times 25 June 8/2 Communication between Holyhead and Dublin.—A new mode of expediting the passage across the Irish sea has lately been proposed. 1936 H. A. L. Fisher Europe 181 By their control of the Western Isles and the Irish Sea a barrier was interposed between Ireland and Scotland. 2005 Daily Tel. 22 Aug. 5/3 Six fin whales were spotted last week by a group of conservationists in the Irish Sea, about 10 miles off the coast of Pembrokeshire. < as lemmas |
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