| 单词 | waterfoot |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswaterfoot waterfoot n. originally and chiefly Scottish (now rare) the mouth of a stream, river, etc. (see also quot. 1887). [Attested earlier in place names, as Waterfoot, Renfrewshire (a1596 as Waterfood).] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > mouth or outfall mouthlOE issue1423 firthc1425 estuary15.. fall1511 port1555 inset1559 water mouth1574 open1582 emboguing1603 ostium1611 inver1615 outfall1629 ostiary1646 influx1652 disclosure1660 discharge1688 waterfoot1730 outflux1739 embouchure1792 sortie1809 beal1819 debouchure1832 salting-place1842 embouchement1844 debouchment1859 ria1887 1730 in J. Imrie Argyll Justiciary Rec. (1969) II. 437 The said Archibald Campbell officer and his said assistants were driveing the said horses towards the said waterfoot. 1786 R. Burns Holy Fair xvi, in Poems 48 xxxxxxx, frae the water-fit, Ascends the holy rostrum. 1867 Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. & Cheshire (N.S.) 7 112 In so far as the adjacent heights are of much inferior elevation and the whole scenery less strikingly varied at the foot than at the head of the lake, it must be admitted that the Water-foot is comparatively tame and plain. 1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. Water-foot, Water-fit,..used also as the name of a village or town at the mouth of a river. 1897 W. G. Collingwood Bk. Coniston iii. 15 It will be convenient to take the steam gondola, and check off the landmarks seen on her trip..down to the waterfoot. 1913 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 786/1 There's a sloop..at the waterfoot, and Pat Grant of Rothiemurchie is her skipper. 1948 A. McKerral Kintyre 17th Cent. vii. 61 An old fisherman at the waterfoot of Dunaverty used to keep one [sc. a skull] in his house for exhibition to visitors. < as lemmas |
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