单词 | picts' wall |
释义 | > as lemmasPicts' wall Picts' wall n. now English regional (northern) Hadrian's Wall. ΚΠ 1590 W. Camden Brit. (new ed.) 649 (margin) Murus, sive the Picts Wall. 1707 R. Sibbald Hist. Inq. i. iv. 19 The learned Mr. Burton..saith of the Picts Wall, that the Limes or Bound of the Empire was there, about the time this Itinerary [sc. of Antoninus] was published. 1789 J. Pinkerton Enq. Hist. Scotl. I. iii. x. 367 The Pehts Wall in Northumberland. 1891 C. Bates Border Holds Northumberland 323 Till quite recently our Wall always appeared on maps as the Picts' Wall. 1974 S. Dobson Geordie Dict. 47 Pict's Wall, The Roman Wall extending from the Solway to Wallsend. < as lemmas |
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