Countess Wear

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A suburb of Exeter, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9489).

词源

From a weir the Countess of Devon had built across the River Exe in the late 13th century, to prevent navigation upriver to Exeter; the weir was later bypassed by a canal. "Wear" or "Weare" is an obsolete variant of "weir".
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