| 释义 |
‖ ˈgletscher rare.
Also gletcher.
[G. gletscher, adopted in 16th c. from Swiss dialect = F. glacier.]
A glacier.
1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. III. 578 Vast fragments of ice called Gletschers. 1796Duncan's Ann. Med. I. 23 In those very countries nearest to the gletschern [etc.]. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVII. 308 Ev'n at th' eternal Gletscher's ice-clad foot I sought and found cabins inhabited. 1932Auden Orators iii. 104 Or be ducked in a gletcher, as they ought to be. 1938L. MacNeice Earth Compels 32 Riding the sullen landscape far from friends Through the jungle of lava..Fording the gletcher. |
