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What does ground mean?
What does ground mean?
.Over the river and through the wood
Oh how the wind does blow
It stings the toe and bites the nose
As over the ground we go....
“A merry Christmas at Grandmother’s” song,
The Andrews Sisters with Danny Kaye
Oh how the wind does blow
It stings the toe and bites the nose
As over the ground we go....
“A merry Christmas at Grandmother’s” song,
The Andrews Sisters with Danny Kaye
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I know that ground is another way to say floor. But metaphorically speaking, I wonder if "ground" means "snow" in this poem?! It got me thinking.
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@Qonshab0 , snow, may be..... I thought it means “land site” or “territory” or staff like this.
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