单词 | spong |
释义 | spongn. Now dialect. 1. A long narrow piece or strip (of ground or land). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > strip sideling1250 tail1472 strake1503 vein1555 slip1591 neckland1598 slang1610 spang1610 screed1615 gore1650 spong1650 belt1725 slinget1790 stripe1801 strip1816 wedge1867 ribbon1923 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. ix. 185 Shiloh succeeds (in a narrow southern spong of this Tribe). 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. ii. 22 A spong of ground somewhat nigh a thousand miles,..and not bearing a proportionable breadth. a1800– in dialect glossaries (E. Anglia, Leic., Northampt.) ΚΠ 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude II. xxix. 103 A laboring man gave notice that he was going to drive the tumbril (two-wheeled cart) to the spong (drift-way for cattle). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1650 |
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