“Land's end”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Land's end

释义

Land's end
†1. = land-end. Obs.
c1394P. Pl. Crede 437 And at þe londes ende laye a litell crom-bolle.15..Wife of Auchtermuchty (Bann. MS.) 9 He lowsit the pluche at the landis end, And draif his oxin hame at evin.1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 68 Thou gossepst at home, to meete me at landis ende.
2. The extremity or furthest projecting point of a country. Now only as the proper name of the most westerly point of Great Britain.
14..Sailing Directions Circumnavig. Eng. (Hakluyt Soc. 1889) 17 A newe cours and tide betwene Englonde and Irlonde and the Londis end.Ibid. 18 The Londes end of Irlonde.1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xi. 156 They passed on no further, neyther could they discover the lands end (which some holde to be there).1793Phil. Trans. LXXXIII. 190 We..were barely able to lay a course through the passage between those islands and the Land's End.

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