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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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The meaning of some English words
"Pilgrim paths, green roads, drove roads, corpse roads, trods, leys, dykes, drongs, sarns, snickets —— say the names of paths out loud and at speed and they become a poem or rite —— holloways, bostles, shutes, driftways, lichways, ridings, halterpaths, cartways, carneys, causeways, herepaths."
This sentence is extracted from a passage of Robert Macfarlane. I am confused by some words in it, for example, drong, sarn, bostle, lichway, halterpath, carney, herepath, etc.. Could you help me? Many thanks.
This sentence is extracted from a passage of Robert Macfarlane. I am confused by some words in it, for example, drong, sarn, bostle, lichway, halterpath, carney, herepath, etc.. Could you help me? Many thanks.
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Most of these are old or regional terms. com/ )? com/words/drong
- Most of these are old or regional terms.
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- com/words/drong
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Most of these are old or regional terms. Have you tried the dictionaries ( http://www.onelook.com/ )? For instance:
http://www.wordnik.com/words/drong
http://www.wordnik.com/words/drong
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I'm a native English speaker in the US, and I've never in my life heard any of these words used in the sense of path. But the author here makes it easy on us and says that they all mean path, so there's no need to look up the meaning of any of them.
As for the finer points of meaning, they can be inferred from the words themselves, no real need to look anything up. For example, a hollo
As for the finer points of meaning, they can be inferred from the words themselves, no real need to look anything up. For example, a hollo
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