单词 | swarve |
释义 | swarvev.1 local (Kent and Sussex). Chiefly passive, to be choked up with sediment, to be silted up. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [verb (intransitive)] > be choked with silt swarve1485 quar1584 silt1799 1485 Rolls of Parl. VI. 331/1 The said Ryver, at the said place called Sarre..is so swared, growen, and hyghed with wose,..that nowe no Fery..may be there. 1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 30 The Channell there is so choked swared and fylled uppe, that there cannot lye in the same Harborowe [of Camber, near Rye] above thirtie or fowrtie saylle of Shippes. 1562 in W. Holloway's Hist. Romney Marsh (1849) 141 A creek or waterway swawed [sic] or dried up. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1545/2 The hauens mouth would..haue soone beene swarued vp. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 544 A narrow way, almost swarued vp with rubbidge. 1665 in W. Holloway's Hist. Romney Marsh (1849) 165 When the ditches and bounds be swarved up. 1701 J. Wallis in Philos. Trans. 1700–01 (Royal Soc.) 22 978 At Hythe in Kent (which is one of the Cinq-Ports) there was..a Convenient Harbour for small Vessels; which is now swarved up. 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 xxxi. 103 (Sussex) The tides brought up the mud with them, and swerved to the depth, at some places, of six or eight feet. 1790 E. Hasted Hist. Kent III. 442 The river Limene's course hither by that means swerved up, and directed wholly into another channel. 1906 R. Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 250 Next floods the brook'll swarve up. Derivatives ˈswarving n. ΚΠ 1904 M. S. Rawson Apprentice 17 The swarving of river channels with sand and shingle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † swarvev.2 Obsolete. = swarm v.2 (intransitive and transitive). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > climb > by clasping with legs and arms swerve?1606 swarve1614 swarm1681 shin1829 shinny1888 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > climb up or scale > climb by clasping with legs and arms climbc1275 swarm15.. grapple1598 swarvea1650 swarm1668 shin1891 leg1893 15.. Isumbras 351 (Douce 261, lf. 7) He swarued [c1550 (ed. Copland) swarmed] vp in to a tree Whyle ether of them myght other see. 1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow (3rd impr.) sig. C5 He swarues vp to his seate as to a sayle yarde. a1650 Sir A. Barton liii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 341/2 With that hee swarued the maine-mast tree [another version p. 345/1 Then up the mast-tree swarved he]. 1844 M. A. Richardson Local Historian's Table Bk. Legendary Div. II. 393 Now leaping, now swarving the slipp'ry steep. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < v.11485v.215.. |
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