单词 | scots sea |
释义 | > as lemmasScots Sea Scots Sea n. now historical and rare = Scottish Sea n. at Scottish adj. and n. Compounds 3.In quot. ?a1400 perhaps = Scotch Sea n. (a) at Scotch adj. and n.3 Compounds 2. ΚΠ ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 316 (MED) Alle com to Carlele to conseil how were best To passe þe Scottis se wele. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ix. l. 310 The king..thocht sone to mak all fre Yat wes on ye north halff ye Scottis se. ?1594 J. Monipennie Certaine Matters sig. F By North those borders from the Scots sea to the Ireland sea. 1686 G. Mackenzie Observ. Acts Parl. 34 And by The Scottis Sea, is mean'd here, The Water of Forth. 1739 D. Stewart Hist. & Geneal. Acc. Royal Family Scotl. i. iv. 70 Their Heirs should hold all the Possessions benorth the Scots Sea, viz. Forth, of the Crown of England. 1846 Polit. Dict. II. 158/1 The term ‘Scotland’..designated..not the whole territory of the realm, but that part only which lay north of the Forth, or Scots sea, as it was called. 2007 K. Givens Rivals for Crown 400 The wooden bridge.., the only passage over the area called the Scots Sea, for the Forth was tidal even this far inland. < as lemmas |
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