单词 | the water of |
释义 | > as lemmasthe water of (a) A body of flowing water; a river or stream. Often in the water of (prefixed to the name of a river or place). In later use chiefly Scottish and (now less commonly) English regional (northern).Often in the names of small rivers, as Water of Leith, Allan Water, etc., especially in Scotland, although such river names also survive in other parts of the British Isles. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [noun] > a river or stream watereOE eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 11 Þonne of þæm æwielme mon hæt þæt wæter Nilus þa ea. OE Genesis A (1931) 2213 Eall þæt sculon agan eaforan þine, þeodlanda gehwilc, swa þa þreo wæter steape stanbyrig streamum bewindað, famige flodas. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 963 Swa þurh Merelade on an to þet wæter þet man cleopeð Nen [L. ad aquam Nen]. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7093 All þatt land iss ec saba, Affterr þatt waterr nemmnedd. c1300 St. John Baptist (Laud) 85 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 32 Cominde toward baptisingue..Toward þe watere of Iordan. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8850 Bituene tueye wateres he rerde redinge, Bituene kenet & temese. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 3009 (MED) A stille water..Which hihte of Lethes the rivere. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 10528 Þys batayle [was] þurghe here boþe assent Besyde a watyr men calle Trent. c1450 (c1430) Brut (Galba) (1908) 427 The Erle of Armynacke with the dolfynys meyne..mette with the Duke of Clarence and his meyne by this watir of Leyre. a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1907) I. 46 From the watur of Schirburn, þat rennyth to Whitley vnto Hethesale. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxxxvi[i]. 1 By the waters [1611 King James rivers] of Babilon we sat downe and wepte. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Tobit vi. 1 Ye first night they abode by the water of Tigris [Luther bei dem Wasser Tigris]. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccxxvij The kyng went vp the water of Some. 1610 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1833) I. 416 Scho said her mother tuik hir doun the watter to a Heyland woman. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 47 Near to this Town, runs a Water that passes under a Bridge of five Arches. 1721 in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1906) I. 44 Thorow this Parish runs the River Eugie Eastward, the Inhabitants there call it the water of Strichen. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at River We must not omit here a water in Germany, which is ordinarily supposed to change iron into copper. 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 291 He was drowned in crossing a deep water on horseback. 1853 Tait's Edinb. Mag. May 305/1 Why is it that our Glasgow poet has not taken us ‘doon the water’, among the lochs and firths, and glorious island glimpses of his own lovely land? 1865 A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. i. 18 Streams, intermediate in size between brooks and rivers, are known in Scotland as ‘waters’. 1868 G. R. Tate in J. G. Baker & G. R. Tate New Flora Northumberland & Durham i. i. 2 The burns and waters wend their way from the hills through contracted vales and narrow picturesque denes. 1902 M. J. H. Skrine World's Delight ii. iii. 134 ‘And you've a-come 'ere to bide?’ ‘Ay. In an unco' big boat... Down the watter—eh! but it was far.’ 1916 Caledonian Aug. 160/2 Thomas Buchanan of Mid Leowen, now known as The Moss, on the water of Blane, one and a half miles south of Kilearn. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 151/2 Watter,..a river. ‘T'Tees Watter’, ‘Esk Watther’, &c. 1934 J. Buchan Free Fishers vi. 92 That's the water o' Yonder ye see in the howe, and Yonderdale begins where the twae hills hurkle thegither. 1948 J. G. Johnston Come fish with Me 207 A ‘water’ is something bigger than a burn, but not large enough to be called a river. 2014 Express (Scottish ed.) (Nexis) 18 Sept. 19 Up until the late Sixties, fleets of paddle steamers brought holidaymakers ‘doon the watter’ to it [sc. Dunoon] and other Clyde resorts. < as lemmas |
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