| 单词 | purgatory swamp |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurgatory swamp purgatory swamp n. see sense 7a. purgatory swamp a. More fully purgatory swamp. A swamp. Now historical except in place names. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] marsheOE fenc888 sladec893 moorOE mossOE marshlandlOE lay-fena1225 lay-mirea1225 moor-fenc1275 flosha1300 strother?a1300 marish1327 carrc1330 waterlanda1382 gaseync1400 quaba1425 paludec1425 mersec1440 sumpa1450 palus?1473 wash1483 morass1489 oozea1500 bog?a1513 danka1522 fell1538 soga1552 Camarine1576 gog1583 swale1584 sink1594 haga1600 mere1609 flata1616 swamp1624 pocosin1634 frogland1651 slash1652 poldera1669 savannah1671 pond-land1686 red bog1686 swang1691 slack1719 flowa1740 wetland1743 purgatory1760 curragh1780 squall1784 marais1793 vlei1793 muskeg1806 bog-pit1820 prairie1820 fenhood1834 pakihi1851 terai1852 sponge1856 takyr1864 boglet1869 sinkhole1885 grimpen1902 sphagnum bog1911 blanket bog1939 string bog1959 1760 Boston Evening Post 2 June 4/3 (advt.) To be sold. A number of tracts of land... A part of the lot No. 25, in purgatory swamp. 1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants iii. 308 In the low prairies near the Wabash, are swamps, called by the people purgatories, which are almost impassable in the wet season. 1834 J. M. Peck Gazetteer Illinois iii. 171 The purgatory swamps, as they are called, around the prairie, had a deleterious influence. 1874 Compl. Hist. Illinois lxvi. 925 The draining of Purgatory Swamp opposite Vincennes. 1914 Mag. Hist. 19 103 Between these two points the ground was low and swampy. To it the early settlers of the region gave the name ‘Purgatories’. 1970 William & Mary Q. 27 566 Separated from the First Precinct by Wigwam Swamp and the wastes of Purgatory Swamp, it contained part of Foul Meadow, the most valuable single piece of real estate in the town. < as lemmas |
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