单词 | slobland |
释义 | sloblandn. Chiefly Irish English. 1. Flat, muddy or marshy land beside the sea or esp. an estuary; esp. that which is covered and exposed by the tide, mudflats. Also: land of this type which has been drained and reclaimed. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > alluvial slobland1837 branch-bottom1880 wash-plain1899 1837 Lough Swilly & Lough Foyle Drainage Bill: Minutes of Evid. 41 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. 214.1) XVI. 129 Is all the Slob Land there enclosed, or is there open Slob Land there as in the Lough? 1881 Times 10 Feb. 4/3 He..enclosed from the tide a considerable area of useful slob-land. 1943 S. H. Bell Summer Loanen in Erin's Orange Lily & Summer Loanen (1996) 173 I'm drainin' off slobland for an aerodrome. 1985 P. J. Boaden & R. Seed Introd. Coastal Ecol. vii. 110 The terms slobland and salting are used respectively for the upper tidal mud-flat with sea-grasses and pioneer halophytes and for the general saltmarsh with its creeks and pans. 2015 @reepacheeper 10 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 26 July 2019) The train journey from Castlerock to Derry is beautiful: sheer cliffs and sandy shores yielding to rich alluvial fields, marsh and slobland. 2. A stretch of flat, muddy or marshy land beside the sea or esp. an estuary; esp. one which is covered and exposed by the tide, a mudflat. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > reclaimed or improved land carrc1330 improvement1473 polder1602 dam1629 innam1662 inningsa1669 beaver meadow1784 slobland1843 polderland1849 bush burn1861 1843 Cork Examiner 1 Dec. The ulterior use of the Slob Lands, when drained, and the purposes for which they should be adapted, are chiefly the subjects for the consideration of the parties. 1878 Freeman's Jrnl. 10 June 3/3 Where that grand church of St. Laurence O'Toole was built, was a slob land not many years ago. 1936 Drogheda Independent 30 May 2/7 There were other sloblands on the north side [of the river]. 1993 Cork Examiner 21 Sept. 11/1 The tide was out so the whole estuary was a slobland. 2014 S. Barry Temporary Gentleman (2015) vii. 80 These were actual places in Sligo, one a sandy spit jutting out onto the sloblands of the Garvoge river, the other somewhere in the eastern end of town. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1837 |
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