释义 |
holed, ppl. a.|həʊld| [f. hole v.1 or n. + -ed.] Having a hole or holes; pierced, perforated.
c1481Caxton Dialogues (E.E.T.S) 34/10 Everard the upholster can well stoppe a mantel hooled. 1548–77Vicary Anat. ix. (1888) 74 Euery Spondel is holed on euery side. c1611Chapman Iliad ii. 686 His men yet pleased their hearts With throwing of the holed stone. 1645Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845) 258 His dead, and holed, and torn body. 1885Garden 10 Oct. 367/2 Holed peach leaves. b. holed-stone, a perforated stone considered to be a monument of prehistoric times.
1769Borlase Antiq. Cornwall (ed. 2) 178 The middle stone..has a large hole..whence it is called the Mên an Tol (in Cornish holed stone). 1861Blight Week at Land's End 19 Holed-stone near Bolleit. 1879Miss A. W. Buckland in Jrnl. Anthrop. Instit. IX. 153, I never heard of libations being poured through these Cornish holed-stones. |