单词 | stoss-and-lee |
释义 | > as lemmasstoss-and-lee Designating the side of any object that faces a flow of ice or water; also transferred. Frequently in stoss-side [partial translation of German stoßseite, †also used] ; stoss-and-lee attributive phr. (see quot. 1947). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [adjective] > steep stickleOE steepc1175 shore14.. steyc1480 proclive1524 steeping1530 brant1545 steepy1565 abrupt1591 dreich1597 downsteepy1603 acclive1616 arduous1711 sharp1725 acclivous1730 rapid1785 declivitous1799 acclivitous1803 scarped1823 proclivitous1860 stoss1878 resequent1906 the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > arrangement of hills crag and tail1815 stoss-and-lee1947 1848 J. G. Cumming Isle of Man xv. 249 The general appearance of its eastern, as compared with its western side, described by Swedish naturalists under the term stoss seite or weathered side, indicates in some measure that fact.] 1878 C. H. Hitchcock Geol. New Hampsh. III. iii. ii. 180 The sides most worn are those which have been struck. We often speak of the struck or stoss and the lee sides of these rounded edges. 1891 R. D. Salisbury Geol. Surv. New Jersey 47 There was also more rapid erosion upon the north or stoss side of hills than upon the southern or lee side. 1905 J. Geikie Struct. & Field Geol. xx. 310 The smoothed face is termed the Stoss-seite, and the non-glaciated face, the Lee-seite. 1920 A. W. Grabau Textbk. Geol. I. xiv. 374 The eroded bottom of such a valley often shows hummocky surfaces, sloping and smooth on the side from which the glacier moved (stoss~side) and with striated surfaces, but rough and cliffed on the side away from the movement (lee side). 1928 T. C. Chamberlin Two Solar Families 180 Let us picture the accretions..as running in convergently at one end of the axis of the core (the stoss end) and as running out divergently at the other (the lee end). 1947 R. F. Flint Glacial Geol. & Pleistocene Epoch v. 72 The persistently asymmetric arrangement of bosses and small hills in a strongly glaciated district, each hill having a comparatively gentle abraded slope on the stoss side and rougher quarried slope on the lee side, is termed stoss-and-lee topography. 1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 435/1 These small glaciated knobs generally display a gently sloping, striated and polished upstream (stoss) slope and an oversteepened lee slope. 1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xiii. 171/1 The abundant ripples of beaches are..about 1 cm high... They move forward under the current by stoss-side erosion and lee~side avalanching. < as lemmas |
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