| 单词 | rut of the sea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrut of the sea Originally: the violent breaking of the sea on the shore. Now: the roaring of the sea, especially in breaking on the shore. Frequently more fully rut of the sea Cf. rout n.4 and rote n.5 ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > roaring of waves routingc1450 buller1513 rout1513 rut1582 rote1610 1582 R. Madox Diary 26 June in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 291 The general hard that ther was such a rut at the shore, that he myght not easyly land his boates. 1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia v. 196 Besides the murmure of the woods, The rut and rocking of the floods [L. litoris ictus] I doe not like. 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 8 We heard the rutt of the shoare, as we thought: but it prooued to be the rutt against a banke of Ice. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xviii The Rut of the Sea was great, the Waves breaking upon our Ships Quarter. 1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Gentleman's Dict. iii. Rut of the Sea, is where it dashes against any Thing. 1820 R. Wilbraham Attempt Gloss. Cheshire 55 The rut of the sea is the dashing of the waves against any thing. 1847 D. Webster Private Corr. (1857) II. 262 I hear the sea very strong and loud at the north... They call this the rote or rut of the sea. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) v. 89 The old man said that this was what they called the ‘rut’, a peculiar roar of the sea before the wind changes. 1896 Dial. Notes 1 211 [New England] Rut, the noise of the waves on the beach. 1909 Newfoundland Q. Dec. 9/1 The fishermen are accustomed, in foggy weather, to find their bearings by carefully listening to the rout of the sea on the shore, which they (very correctly) call rote, or rut. < as lemmas |
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