carr

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kɑː/    美 /kɑɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
    — The marsh lands or ‘carrs’ that covered the low-lying floor of the vale could not be cultivated and the poorly drained flanks of the vale would be best used as pasture.
  2. Archaic form of car (“wheeled vehicle”). alt-of,archaic
  3. Rock.
  4. In particular, a marsh or fen formed when the litter of decaying reeds (e.g. in a lake) raises the ground level above the water, allowing more vegetation like sedges and then low bushes or trees to grow; a marshy woodland. (Compare marsh, swamp, bog, fen.)

词形变化

carrs plural carrs plural carrs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
alder carr Batley Carr carrland

词源

词源 1
From Middle English kerr and Middle English carr meaning meadow, field or grassland of a low lying variety; possibly related to Old Norse kjarr. Compare Swedish kärr, Icelandic kjarr.
词源 2
From Northumbrian Old English carr; possibly adopted from a Cumbric *carreg, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”).
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