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holm

/hohm/US // hoʊm //UK // (həʊm) //

坎儿井,坎儿沟,坎肩,坎特

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    British Dialect.

    • : a low, flat tract of land beside a river or stream.
    • : a small island, especially one in a river or lake.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • One month after the operation, Holm arrived in a ghostly Stanleyville posing as a State Department representative.

  • “Nobody sent us over there to be sure it was a nice guy,” Holm says.

  • Shortly after leaving Stanleyville, Richard Holm and a Cuban pilot went down in a fiery plane crash.

  • “Congo was clearly just a pawn in the global chessboard of West vs. East,” Holm says.

  • “It is, I think, almost as bad today as the day I crashed,” Holm says of the Congo.

  • Holm to whippes lasshe; 'the holm used for making handles for whip-lashes.'

  • Holmgang so called in Norway because the two combatants retired alone to a holm or uninhabited islet to fight.

  • There was no foam around the Gild-Holm-'Ur; no wave beat against its granite sides.

  • At the same moment the wide waters round the Gild-Holm-'Ur and the vast gathering twilight closed upon them.

  • Such was Holm-Peel, as records inform us, till towards the end of the seventeenth century.