| 单词 | watch hill |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswatch hill watch hill n. (see quot. 1895). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > action or duty of sentry or picket > [noun] > watch-post > hill watch hill1560 watch-knoll1645 watch1775 1560 in J. Scott Berwick-upon-Tweed (1888) 448 Any man that cometh to the watch hill and is by the officers to watch. 1895 Lakeland Gloss. Suppl. Watch Hill, the hill from which the outlook was kept against border freebooters; hence now frequent as Border place-name. < as lemmas |
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