单词 | turlough |
释义 | turloughn. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > brook or brooklet brookc888 ritheeOE burnc1000 bournc1390 becka1400 brooketa1552 gill1635 stell1651 branch1663 turlough1686 brooklet1813 nant1923 1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 958 As to those places we call Turloughs, quasi Terreni lacus, or land-lakes; they answer the name very well, being lakes one part of the year of considerable depth; and very smooth fields the rest. 1861 Zoologist 19 7617 Serving..as water-courses for the ‘buried’ rivers which give rise to the sink-holes and turloughs for which the district of the Burren is famous. 1878 G. H. Kinahan Man. Geol. Irel. xix. 325 When the water during floods rises in the [shallow hollows], it overflows the adjoining lands, forming the turloughs, which are usually lakes in winter and callows in summer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1686 |
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