单词 | shoreline |
释义 | shorelinen. 1. The line along which a large body of water meets the land; a line following the shore; the strip of land lying along such a line. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > coast line seasidec1275 the sea's sidea1400 seasides1532 shoreside1571 sea-linea1687 seaboard1788 waterline1789 shoreline1811 sea-edge1820 coast-line1861 ocean line1870 ria coast1899 rias coast1899 1811 Chester Chron. 29 Nov. A very good road may be made to Chester in this direction..but the distance would be increased about 9½ miles above that of the improved shore line. 1842 N.Y. Herald 10 Aug. It would have been advantageous to have had them inside [the reef] to trace the shore line, but the necessity depends upon the closeness of the survey. 1852 A. Henfrey Vegetation Europe 187 The shore-line along the edge of the hilly ridges. 1866 J. R. Lowell Seward-Johnson Reaction in Writ. (1890) V. 299 The levels and shore-lines of politics are no more stationary than those of continents. 1918 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1917 50 215 Some of the material is thrown up on the beach, so that the shore-line advances seawards. 1965 N.Y. Times 9 May (Travel section) 27/2 An 85-mile stretch of scenic shoreline running northwest from this British Columbian metropolis has been dubbed the Sunshine Coast. 2006 J. Pilkington Jingler's Luck 1 The flotsam that lay along the shoreline, washed downriver from London. 2. A rope connecting a boat, fishing net, etc., with the shore; = shore-rope n. at shore n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > ropes on nets norsel1440 head-roping1615 nostelling1615 warrope1615 way-rope1641 head rope?1748 warp1835 balk1847 trawl-warp1864 ground-rope1874 brail1883 shoreline1887 shore-rope- 1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods I. 529 For the management of these seines they are each provided with a ‘shore-line’ 50 fathoms long. 1966 H. D. Smith et al. in N. J. Wilimovsky & J. N. Wolfe Environment Cape Thompson Region xxxii. 863 Once in place, the net is held open by the alongshore current and kept in position by a shore line from the bridle on the offshore end. 2018 R. Heikell & L. Heikell Turkish Waters & Cyprus Pilot (ed. 10) vi. 340/1 You may have difficulty finding something to tie a shore-line to, but the local fishermen seem amiable enough. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1811 |
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