| 单词 | road belt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad belt road belt n. North American (now historical) a belt given as a token to signify that the recipient is to be allowed unhindered passage on a road. ΚΠ 1760 Minutes of Conf. at Fort Pitt 7 Apr. in W. Johnson Papers (1921) III. 212 Brethren,..with this belt I clear the road of peace..that we may travel it as our Forefathers formerly did to visit our Brethren, and I stop up the war road that it will not be possible to pass along it... Gave a road belt. 1765 G. Croghan Jrnl. 25 Aug. in R. G. Thwaites Early Western Trav. (1904) I. 156 Col. Cambell & I..delivered them [sc. Indians] a Road Belt in the name of Sir William Johnson Baronet. 1879 H. W. Beckwith Hist. Notes on Northwest 272 ‘Opening a road’ has the peculiar signification that the parties who have given and received a ‘road belt’ are at liberty to go to and from, and visit each other freely, as friends, without danger of molestation. 1998 G. M. Lewis in D. Woodward & G. M. Lewis Hist. Cartogr. II. iii. iv. 89 A road belt was used by a Cherokee captain in Philadelphia in 1758 at a meeting with representatives of the Iroquois. < as lemmas |
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