| 单词 | earth-piercing | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasearth-piercing  a.   In branch  I., as  earth-baking,  earth-convulsing,  earth-delving,  earth-incinerating,  earth-piercing,  earth-worker, etc. See also earthquaking adj., earth-tiller n., earth-tilling n., etc. ΚΠ 1594    W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis 		(new ed.)	 sig. Eiij  				Where earth-deluing Conies keepe. 1598    J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 34  				Earth-incinerating Aetnas wombe big swolne with flames. 1601    2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus  iii. iv. 1390  				If his earth wroting snout shall gin to scorne. 1781    J. Sharp Acc. Pensilvanian Stove-grates 12/2  				Boring Tools for Earth Boring. 1820    P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound  iv. i. 138  				Earth-convulsing behemoth. 1847    R. W. Emerson Poems 75  				Earth-baking heat. 1848    P. J. Bailey Festus 		(ed. 3)	 206  				The broad and upturned base Of that earth-piercing altar pyramid. 1926    Missionary Rec. United Free Ch. Scotl. Apr. 168/1  				The spirit of the Secession is strong among the shepherds & ‘earth-workers’ of the Scottish Border. 1966    J. Sankey Chalkland Ecol. iv. 84  				An earth-boring tool was used to obtain samples of 1.1 × 103 cm3. 2002    N.Y. Times 		(National ed.)	 10 Mar.  i. 6/4  				A top priority is improving ‘earth-penetrating weapons’ that could be used to destroy underground installations and hardened bunkers. < as lemmas  | 
	
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