单词 | meadowish |
释义 | † meadowishadj. Obsolete. Resembling meadowland or water meadow. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [adjective] > used as meadow > resembling meadow meadowy1578 meadowisha1625 a1625 T. Pont Topogr. Acct. Cunningham (1858) 15 Druymmealshun, wich the vulgar interprette, the rigging of the medowish moate. 1668 in H. M. Burt First Cent. Hist. Springfield (1899) II. 98 The Town granted unto Abell Wright..ffourteen acres of Meddowish Land up the Little River. 1681 in New Plymouth Colony Rec. (1857) VII. 238 Which fence stood on the said Woodworth swampy, meddowish land. 1687 in H. S. Nourse Early Rec. Lancaster, Mass. (1884) 299 Ye land..bounded..westerly partly by a brook and partly by some ministeriall meadowish Land. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.a1625 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。