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单词 crannog
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Definition of crannog in English:

crannog

noun ˈkranəɡ-əɡ
  • An ancient fortified dwelling constructed in a lake or marsh in Scotland or Ireland.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Other dwellings were built in lakes and were called crannogs.
    • The crannog will provide open air theatre facilities and will become very popular with school groups and parties next Summer.
    • And it took them three years to construct their own crannog, a timber dwelling built on stilts over the water, which links the way of life of people in 600BC with ours today.
    • The loch contains a crannog, a man-made island which once held a roundhouse and is believed to date from around the 1st century AD.
    • It is one of hundreds of crannogs in Scotland's 30,000 lochs, whose history has, until now, been rather neglected.
    • Lochs, and Scotland has 30,000 of them, had defensive lake dwellings called crannogs, founded on timber piles.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Irish crannóg, Scottish Gaelic crannag 'timber structure', from crann 'tree, beam'.

 
 

Definition of crannog in US English:

crannog

noun-əɡ
  • An ancient fortified dwelling constructed in a lake or marsh in Scotland or Ireland.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The crannog will provide open air theatre facilities and will become very popular with school groups and parties next Summer.
    • Other dwellings were built in lakes and were called crannogs.
    • It is one of hundreds of crannogs in Scotland's 30,000 lochs, whose history has, until now, been rather neglected.
    • The loch contains a crannog, a man-made island which once held a roundhouse and is believed to date from around the 1st century AD.
    • And it took them three years to construct their own crannog, a timber dwelling built on stilts over the water, which links the way of life of people in 600BC with ours today.
    • Lochs, and Scotland has 30,000 of them, had defensive lake dwellings called crannogs, founded on timber piles.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Irish crannóg, Scottish Gaelic crannag ‘timber structure’, from crann ‘tree, beam’.

 
 
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