单词 | york-wolds |
释义 | > as lemmasYork-wolds 4. Used in the specific designations of certain hilly tracts in England, viz. the hill country of North Yorkshire and Humberside ( Yorkshire Wolds, †York(e)swold, †York-wolds), the Cotswold district, the hilly districts of Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > [noun] downlandeOE downOE highlandOE high country1445 wold1472 high ground1489 upland1566 hill-country1582 Chiltern1627 downs country1791 altitude1853 upwold1875 top-land1877 1472–5 Rolls of Parl. VI. 157/2 Fell called Shorlyng and Morlyng, growyng in Yorkeswold. 1548 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. (Surtees 1908) 202 My manor in Willoughby upon the woldes. 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 408 Those large champaignes of Yorkswold, and Cotswolde. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 523 Part of it [sc. Leicestershire] is called the Wold, as being hilly without wood. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvi. Argt. 115 Tow'rds Lester then her course shee holds, And sailing o'r the pleasant Oulds, Shee fetcheth Soare downe from her Springs. 1622 W. Burton Descr. Leicester Shire 296 Waltham on the Wouldes. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 29 Most of the grasse that groweth on the landes, and especially on the leyes of the wolds, is a small, sparrie, and dry grasse. 1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 1012 In some wooddy parts of the Woles in Lincoln-shire. 1697 G. Meriton Praise Yorks. Ale (ed. 3) 80 (East-Riding Yorks.) For Wolds or Woulds [they say] Wauds. 1725 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Duke of Portland (1901) VI. 95 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 676) XXXVI. i. 1 The Yorkshire Wolds, called here the Wadds. 1778 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer (ed. 2) at Yorkshire A large tract called the York-Woulds. 1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 20 The north of Lincolnshire is..high and dry. It is called the ‘Wold’; but that does not mean big stones and heather. The Wold is not a moor; it is a succession of good turnip fields. < as lemmas |
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