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单词 flintstone
释义 ˈflintstone
[f. flint n. + stone.]
1. = flint n. 1.
c1340Cursor M. 20897 (Fairf.) Soroufully þen fel he doun In liknes of flint-stane.1375Cantic. de Creatione 983 in Anglia I, Out of þe flynt ston Moyses dede ywis water out rennen.1535Coverdale Ps. cxiii[i]. 8 The God of Iacob..turned..the flynt stone in to a sprynginge well.1855Longfellow Hiaw. xxi. 64 And the earth became as flint-stone.
2. = flint n. 2, 3.
c1400Mandeville (1839) v. 50 Men kutten the Braunches with a scharp Flyntston.c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 768/19 Silex, a flyntstone.1535Coverdale Isa. l. 7, I haue hardened my face like a flynt stone.1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxix. 151 Prometheus..was..the firste that stroke fire out of the flint stone.1638Sanderson Serm. II. 111 You may as soon squeeze water out of a flintstone.1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus xxiii. 4 Each for penury fit to tooth a flint-stone.
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