sea stack

名词 n.
/ˈsiː ˌstæk/    /ˈsi ˌstæk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pillar of rock that rises from the ocean, formed by surrounding softer ground eroding away. UK
    — The sea-gull sprang upwards from where he had floated on the ripple, and hied him slowly away to his lodge in his deep sea-stack; the dusky cormorant flitted past, with heavier and more frequent stroke, to his whitened shelf high on the precipice; [...]

词形变化

sea stacks plural sea-stack alternative

词源

From sea + stack (“a heap, pile; large vertical column of rock in the sea”); stack is derived from Middle English stak (“a heap, pile, stack; large vertical column of rock in the sea”) [and other forms], from Old Norse stakkr (“a heap, pile; haystack; barn”) (compare Faroese stakkur (“sea stack”)), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“pile of hay, haystack”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“beam, pole, stick”).
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