scriddan

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A kind of landslide in which rain loosens the side of a mountain or hill and rocks slide down. Scotland,rare
    — AUCHUIRN, in the Shire of Ross: and in the Parish of Kintail. This is now a Farm in Glenelchaig, but was once a populous Town, which, in 1745, was rendered uninhabitable by an awful Scriddan or Mountain Torrent, and has since been converted into a grazing District.

词形变化

scriddans plural scridan alternative

词源

A relation to Old Norse skriða (“landslide, scree”) or an unattested Old English cognate thereof, *scridan (plural of *scride), has been suggested, as has derivation from a Gaelic word sgriodan, itself perhaps from Norse. Compare scree.
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