单词 | laurel-brake |
释义 | > as lemmaslaurel-brake laurel-brake n. ΚΠ 1853 P. P. Kennedy Blackwater Chron. vi. 73 A man could walk about for a week,..particularly if he got into a big laurel-brake. 1857 D. H. Strother Virginia Illustr. i. 13 The settlers..speak of it..as an ill-omened region, filled with bears, panthers, impassable laurel-brakes, and dangerous precipices. 1893 Outing Oct. 61/2 Only in the wilds of the backwoods,..or in the mountains where tracts of laurel brakes give refuge against men and dogs, do the Virginia deer hold their own. < as lemmas |
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