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ghut
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語源
Occasionally suggested to be a variant of ghat, from Hindi, but compare native English dialectal gut (“narrow channel or stream of water; opening through cliffs leading to the sea”). Compare ghaut.
発音
- IPA: /ɡʌt/
名詞
ghut (plural ghuts)
- (Caribbean) A steep ravine leading to the sea.
- 1990, I. R. Corker, Nevis: Resource Assessment and Zoning Plan, page 25:
- Ghuts / There is considerable variation between ghuts and also along the length of each ghut. Near the sea the ghuts are deep, dry and straight-sided, but inland they become more V-shaped and moist.
- 2000, Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable Wastewater and ..., page 215:
- 2001, Eugenia O'Neal, From the Field to the Legislature: A History of Women in the ..., page 68:
- 2022, James A. Delle, Elizabeth C. Clay, Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved...:
- 1990, I. R. Corker, Nevis: Resource Assessment and Zoning Plan, page 25:
参照
- Kareem-Nelson Hull, The Virgin Islands Dictionary (2018): "Ghut [gut] Noun […] a natural trench that flows from high altitudes to lower grounds and out to seas than drains the land of water caused by heavy rainfall."
- ^ Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “GUT, n.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 768:
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GUT, sb.³ Irel. Nhb. Chs. Lin. Oxf. Ken. Sus. Dev. Cor. Colon. 1. A narrow channel or stream of water. Cf. gote, gout, sb.¹
N.I.¹ A narrow navigable channel among sand-banks or rocks. Nhb. Frae Team gut to Whitley, wi' coals black and brown, For the Amphitrite loaded, the keel had com'd down, Gilchrist Sngs. (1824) II; Nhb.¹ There is Halig gut at Hexham; now Hallgate. Chs.¹ A narrow channel leading from a river, amongst the mud-banks, and into which the tide flows. A channel of this kind on Astmoor salt marsh in the township of Halton is spoken of as ‘th' gut.’ Oxf. Just above the Gut... they were aware of the presence of the freshmen's four-oar, Hughes T. Brown Oxf. (1861) ii; At a round swing-trot kept pace on the shore with the swing of the Balliol eight, as she shot through the narrows of ‘the gut,’ Merivale Faucit of Balliol (1882) i. Ken. A wide ditch or water course that empties itself into the sea. Romney Marsh (K.). n.Dev. Where Coonie gut by tha shord turns roun', Rock Jim an' Nell (1867) st. 123. [Nfld. We travelled by the shores of several ‘guts,’ or inlets from the harbour, Vincent Nfld. (1892) i.]
2. An underground drain. Sus.¹², e.Sus. Holloway.
3. A narrow passage of any kind.
n.Lin.¹ s.Lin. Seldom used now (T.H.R.). Sus.¹ An opening through the chalk cliffs on the south downs leading to the sea (s.v. Gap). Cor.² w.Cor. N. & Q. (1854) 1st S. x. 302.
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