| 单词 |
warth |
| 释义 |
▪ I. warth Obs. exc. dial.
[OE. waroð (waruð, warað, wareð, wearoð, weroð, warð) masc., corresp. to OHG. warid, werid (MHG. wert, werd-, mod.G. werd, wert):—OTeut. *waruþo-z, *wariþo-z.]
A shore, strand; in mod. use, ‘a flat meadow, esp. one close to a stream; a stretch of coast’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
Beowulf 234 Ᵹewat him þa to waroðe wicge ridan. a1000Boeth. Metr. viii. 30 Næniᵹ cepa ne seah ofer earᵹeblond ellendne wearoð [MS. wearod]. c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) cv. 9 Þær wæron þa wareðas driᵹe. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 339 Þe whal wendez at his wylle & a warþe fyndez, & þer he brakez vp þe buyrne. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 715 At vche warþe oþer water þer þe wyȝe passed, He fonde a foo hym byfore. 1372Bridgewater Corp. MSS. No. 462 Septem acras terre cum Wartha versus mare. c1450Mirk's Festial 7 On a day, as he walket on þe see-warth, he segh a drownet man cast vp on þe watyr. c1465Warrington in 1465 (Chetham Soc.) 10 Item tenet quandam parcellam terræ arabilis jacentem super le Warthe. c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 190 The pasture called the warth in the other side of Seaverne. Ibid. 341 Hee..held in severalty divers parcells of Slimbridge Warth..and shortly after inclosed fifty four acres more of the same Warth. 1839Sir G. C. Lewis Gloss. Hereford. 117 Warth. On the banks of the Severn, a flat meadow close to the stream is so called; e.g. the Warth opposite Blakeney.
▪ II. warth
var. wath, ford; pa. tense of worth v. |
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