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单词 Queen's Chain
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Queen's Chain

noun NZ & West Indian
A strip of public-access land along coasts and waterways, of up to 20 metres wide: they reclaimed land from waters adjacent to the Queen’s Chain...
  • They were the owners of the hinterland to the Queen's Chain.
  • Above the beach along the bay Lies a rolling, grass domain, Shaded by trees, twenty meters wide, Formed from the old Queen's chain.
  • Besides, I was on the Queen's Chain.

Origin

Late 19th century: from chain in the sense 'unit of length'. The strip of land was originally one chain (66 ft) wide.

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