sow-backn.

Forms: Also sowback.

Etymology: < sow n.¹ Compare sow's-back n. at sow n.¹ Compounds 4.

Chiefly Scottish.

1. A woman's cap or head-dress having a raised ridge or fold running from front to back.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > with raised ridge

sow-backed mutch1728

sow-back1808

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Frowdie A cap for the head;..also called a sow-back.

1835 J. Monteath Dunblane Trad. (1887) 113 Auld Wives o' Dunblane..Wi' their cloaks an' their sowbacks.

1886 S. Carment Mem. J. Carment iii. 79 The aged women with their white soo-backs.

attributive.1897 J. Wright Scenes Sc. Life 18 Attired in a white ‘sooback mutch’ and in short-gown and drugget coat.

2. Geology. A ridge of glacial origin suggestive of the back of a sow.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > glacial mound

moraine1783

osar1842

esker1852

kame1862

sow-back1874

push moraine1890

whaleback1893

recessional moraine1897

Ra1902

Salpausselkä1923

1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age ii. 17 The long parallel ridges, or ‘sowbacks’ and ‘drums’, as they are termed,..invariably coincide in direction with the valleys or straths in which they lie.

1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age vii. 97 ‘Sowbacks’ being the glacial counter~parts of those broad banks of silt and sand that form here and there upon the beds of rivers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	sow-back
释义	sow-backn. Forms: Also sowback. Etymology: < sow n.¹ Compare sow's-back n. at sow n.¹ Compounds 4. Chiefly Scottish. 1. A woman's cap or head-dress having a raised ridge or fold running from front to back. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > with raised ridge sow-backed mutch1728 sow-back1808 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Frowdie A cap for the head;..also called a sow-back. 1835 J. Monteath Dunblane Trad. (1887) 113 Auld Wives o' Dunblane..Wi' their cloaks an' their sowbacks. 1886 S. Carment Mem. J. Carment iii. 79 The aged women with their white soo-backs. attributive.1897 J. Wright Scenes Sc. Life 18 Attired in a white ‘sooback mutch’ and in short-gown and drugget coat. 2. Geology. A ridge of glacial origin suggestive of the back of a sow. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > glacial mound moraine1783 osar1842 esker1852 kame1862 sow-back1874 push moraine1890 whaleback1893 recessional moraine1897 Ra1902 Salpausselkä1923 1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age ii. 17 The long parallel ridges, or ‘sowbacks’ and ‘drums’, as they are termed,..invariably coincide in direction with the valleys or straths in which they lie. 1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age vii. 97 ‘Sowbacks’ being the glacial counter~parts of those broad banks of silt and sand that form here and there upon the beds of rivers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1808
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