单词 | mantle-wall |
释义 | † mantle-walln. Fortification. Scottish. Obsolete. A rampart, a parapet; (more widely) any outer wall. Also figurative.Cf. mantlet wall n. at mantlet n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] wallc900 banka1387 aggera1398 trench1445 braye1512 mantle-walla1522 werewalla1525 rampire1548 rampart1550 mound1558 mount1558 argin1589 vallie1602 earthwork1633 circumvallation1645 vallation1664 subtrench1669 epaulement1687 enceinte1708 ring1780 vallum1803 main-work1833 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. iii. 159 Quhat meyn thai be this myddill mantill wall? a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xii. Prol. 24 The twinkling stremowris of the orient..Bet doun the skyis clowdy mantill wall. 1574 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1876) I. 12 The said Thomas to big wp the pece mantale wall wpone the said maister Dauidis ground. 1584 in C. S. Romanes Sel. Rec. Regality of Melrose (1917) III. 317 The yard callit the baikhous yeard lyand within the mantill wall of the said abbay. 1609 in J. Maidment Chron. Perth (1831) 12 The great wind blew down the stanes of the mantil wall of the kirk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.a1522 |
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