单词 | river-head |
释义 | > as lemmasriver-head river-head n. the source of a river; also figurative; cf. head n.1 38a. ΚΠ ?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse iii. i. sig. F3v Heres a Mortall almost dead, Falne into my Riuer head. 1685 in J. Dryden Misc. ii. 408 It..Then to our Springs and River heads ascends. 1754 H. Sharpe Let. 6 June in W. H. Browne Arch. Maryland (1888) VI. 70 The Description of Distances & Bearings of the River Heads on the Eastern Shore. 1865 R. Burton in Sel. Papers (1924) 97 The lands lying eastward of the Gaboon river-head. 1942 R. Nathan Sea-gull Cry viii. 112 He walked home through the darkness, down the long road to the river-head. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Sept. b26/1 A renewed sense of Brancusi's sensitivity for materials, his spirituality and his importance as the riverhead of Minimalism. < as lemmas |
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