(n.) Forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Satellite view of Antarctica with the Thwaites glacier marked in red.
(2) They’ve gone and checked their room but their stuff is still in there.” The family of Denis and Elaine Thwaites, aged 70 and 69, from Blackpool in Lancashire, were initially told they had been hurt in the attack, but then learned the information they had been given was incorrect.
(3) Maleficent also features Juno Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton Thwaites, India Eisley, Miranda Richardson and Kenneth Cranham, none of whom are thought to be related to Jolie.
(4) Eight hand pulls, featuring such steady breweries as Hornbeam, Moorhouse's, Titanic and, often, a couple of beers from Thwaites, keep the regulars happy.
(5) The evidence presented in this and the accompanying paper (J. J. Thwaites and U.C.
(6) Thwaites, though, believes the former Cagliari owner will be a man of his word.
(7) His decision to sell comes at a time when the majority of United’s fans have turned on him, as witnessed during Thursday’s defeat to Blackburn Rovers, and Thwaites believes Cellino will be wary of the dissent a change of heart would cause.
(8) The little spark inside me went.” Others being reviewed by CCRC are the Earl of Hardwicke and his business partner Stefan Thwaites who were convicted after a drugs sting in 1999, the Pakistan spot-fixing case of businessman Mazhar Majeed in 2011, and that of Rani and Joginder Kashyap who were convicted of an immigration offence in 2007.
(9) Yesterday, after six weeks of the action at the high court in London, Private Eye's counsel, Ronald Thwaites QC, told Mr Justice Gray the parties had agreed terms.
(10) Scientists have known for years that the Thwaites glacier is the soft underbelly of the Antarctic ice sheet, and first found that it was unstable decades ago.
(11) The University of Washington researchers said that the fast-moving Thwaites glacier could be lost in a matter of centuries.
(12) Jeff Bridges plays The Giver, an elder who's allowed to lie and cheat to share pre-Sameness facts with the Receiver of Memory (Brenton Thwaites), a young apprentice who must know the truth to be able to avert catastrophe.
(13) In a vast region of western Antarctica that drains into the Amundsen Sea, the Pine Island glacier and neighbouring Smith and Thwaites glaciers are thinning by 9m a year, the satellite measurements show.
(14) Konig’s team-mate Scott Thwaites, bronze medallist in the Commonwealth Games road race in early August, remembers being inspired as a teenager by watching Swift wearing the mountains jersey when the race went past his school in Yorkshire, and returns this year to support Konig and the NetApp-Endura sprinter Sam Bennett.
(15) The study honed in on the Thwaites glacier – a broad glacier that is part of the Amundsen Sea.
(16) Dylan Thwaites is fronting the supporters’ group which the majority owner, Massimo Cellino, has told he will sell his stake to .
(17) The Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers on the western Antarctic ice sheet, and the Totten and Cook glaciers on the eastern Antarctic ice sheet are now sliding into the water between 20% and 100% faster than in recent decades, the researchers report.
(18) Ian Thwaites from the Child Migrant Trust said it was "still very difficult to accept the full extent of what happened".
(19) Thwaites also acts as a dam that holds back the rest of the ice sheet.
(20) It is understood Cellino wants to hand over his shares in order to have a legacy at the end of a tumultuous time in charge and Thwaites hopes to have a period of exclusivity agreed soon.
Twaite
Definition:
(n.) A European shad; -- called also twaite shad. See Shad.
(n.) A piece of cleared ground. See Thwaite.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dead twaite shad, small whitish gray fish, were discovered Tuesday by inspectors conducting routine water testing in Rio’s sewage and rubbish-filled Guanabara Bay.
(2) The statement from Rio’s environmental agency said tests following a similar die-off of twaite shad in the Guanabara Bay last November showed “neither abnormalities in the water, nor the presence of chemical or toxic substances.