wathとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

wath (複数形 waths)

1. (historical, England, dialect) A ford.
   • 1885, R. S. Ferguson and C. F. Keary, “The Beaumont Hoard, with some remarks on a pre-Roman road near Carlisle”, in Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, volume 8, published 1886, page 375:

     The Romans had a bridge across the Eden near where the Caldew falls into the larger stream; had that bridge been in existence when this road or track was first made, its makers would have gone to the Roman bridge, and not to the deep and dangerous wath at Etterby. This ancient road and the ford at "Willie-of-the-Boats" were not superseded until […] 1816.