单词 | penisle |
释义 | † penislen. Obsolete. A peninsula. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > peninsula peninsulaa1552 byland1577 demi-island1600 half-island1600 chersonese1601 demi-isle1609 penisle1611 near-isle1625 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xii. 577/1 A great cape of land or penile in Normandy. 1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged i. §6 Britaine thereby is of a supposed Penisle made an Iland. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. ii. §3. 53 Promontory, Cape,..Point, Pene-isle. 1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 39 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Podalirius..had her, endow'd with the Penisle call'd Chersonesus, for his Pains. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1611 |
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