Wrythe

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专有名词
  1. A suburban area (district) of Carshalton in the Borough of Sutton, Greater London.
    — The downs and the Wrythe belong, to the best of the overseers' belief, to the lord of the manor. The downs let partly as a preserve for game, and partly as farm land, having public highways through the same, otherwise no particular right.
  2. A surname. historical,obsolete
  3. The claimed capital city of Austenasia, a terraced house in the Wrythe, Carshalton, London Borough of Sutton.
    — The official capital city of Austenasia is Wrythe.
  4. A portion of the River Wandle as it flows through Carshalton and past the Wrythe. rare
    — It appeared to the Rev. G. W. Banks that the best course to adopt would be to alter the course of the Wrythe so that it might enter the culvert at a curve instead of right angles.

词形变化

the Wrythe canonical

词源

词源 1
The place-name was coined (or at least standardised) in the Ordnance Survey's 1:1056 scale map series, published 1867, but first attested 10 August 1866 in a document presented to the House of Commons (see quotations) using the Survey's then-unpublished map data.
词源 2
An alternative spelling of the surname Writhe. Related to Wriothesley.
词源 3
From Green Wrythe Lane, the road upon which the capital of Austenasia is located; itself named after the Wrythe area. Coined 20 September 2008 (see quotations).
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