| 单词 |
byland |
| 释义 |
† ˈbyland Obs. Also biland. [See quot. 1577: by- seems to have been taken by Harrison in the sense of ‘off at the side’.] A peninsula.
1577–87Harrison Descr. Brit. x. 30 The How, which is not an Iland..but almost an Iland, which parcels the Latins call Peninsulas, and I do English a Byland. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 22 The Biland Taurica Chersonesus. 1622–62Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1673) 163/2 This Biland or Demy-Island. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon (1714) II. 302 [The river] Tamer..leaveth Cornwall, as it were a Peninsula, or By-land. |
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