单词 | diamond work |
释义 | > as lemmasdiamond work a. Of the shape of a diamond (see 5); lozenge-shaped, rhombic; forming a design consisting of figures of this shape, as diamond couching, diamond fret, diamond netting, diamond pattern, diamond work; having a head or end of this shape, as diamond dibber, diamond nail. ΚΠ 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 77 The nearest..vnto the square of men, is the Diamant battell. 1663 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 481 A larg diomond hatchment with Canterbury and Juxon impaled. ?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 160 A Diamond Figure, whose sides are parallel, but not at right Angles. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 215 The diamond-dibber, a pointed plate of steel with a short iron handle. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge i. 230 Its windows were old diamond pane lattices. 1859–60 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Diamond fret, a species of checker work in which..a diamond..is interlaced by the prolongations of the diameters of the square. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Diamond-nail, a nail having a rhombal head. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Diamond-work (Masonry), reticulated work formed by courses of lozenge-shaped stones, very common in ancient masonry. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 152 Diamond couching [is] one of the Flat Couchings used in Church Work. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 359 Fancy Diamond Netting is worked in three different ways. < as lemmas |
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