英语词汇“mortar-stone”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	mortar-stone
释义	ˈmortar-stone Chiefly Sc. and north. dial. (Sc. and north. -stane). [f. mortar n.¹ Cf. MDu. mortiersteen.] A block of stone hollowed to form a mortar; spec. ‘a stone formerly used for preparing barley, by separating it from the husks’ (Jam.). 1480–1Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 97, ij morterstanez cum iij pilis lign.1500–20Dunbar Poems lx. 60 Mell⁓heidit lyk ane mortar-stane.1580Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. III. 320 Item, in the kitchene..ane mortar stane.1696Invent. in W. Hector Select. Judic. Rec. Renfrewsh. (1876) 304 Ane morter-stone and ane mell yrto.1865Lubbock Prehist. Times 249 The objects of stone found in the bone caves..are flakes,..hammers, and mortar-stones.
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