单词 | snowdrift |
释义 | snowdriftn. 1. A heap or mass of snow driven together, or piled up, by the action of the wind. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > an accumulation or expanse of snow > snow-drift snowdrifta1400 writhe1594 wreath1692 snow-wreath1818 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9932 Wit-in þis castel þat sua es tift, þat quitter es þan snau drif [read drift; Gött. snau on drift]. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xx. cxxxvi. 390 As against the warm'th of Titans fire, Snow drifts consume. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. x. 185 I would rather keep watch on a snow-drift. 1861 G. A. Spottiswoode in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 96 We were soon planted in a snow-drift, fifty or sixty yards long, higher than the carriage. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §4. 72 He..helped with his own hands to clear a road through the snowdrifts. 2. A driving mass or cloud of snow; snow driven before the wind. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [noun] > the falling of snow > snow driven by wind ewdendrift1630 yird-drift1820 snowdrift1836 reek1894 spindrift1961 scud1969 1836 Uncle Philip's Conversat. Whale Fishery 200 He..never walked farther from the ships than a mile, for fear of being overtaken by a snow-drift. 1892 J. Lumsden Sheep-head & Trotters 137 The snawdrift, o'er Soutra, in tempest was blawing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1400 |
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