| 单词 | elf-arrow |
| 释义 | > as lemmaself-arrow elf-arrow n. a flint arrowhead (see elf-shot n.); also, a belemnite. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > prehistoric arrow-head elf-arrow1590 arrowhead?1661 fairy dart1782 fairy stone1791 flint-head1796 projectile point1847 leaf arrowhead1878 fairy arrow1903 1590 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. 198 Thow directit George Cuik to twa wemen..for ane elf-arrow-heid. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. x. 396 These..they there [i.e. at Aberdeen] call Elf-Arrows. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Elf-arrows, flint-stones sharpened and jagged like Arrow-heads, used in War by the ancient Britons. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Elf-arrows, a name given by the people of Scotland, to certain stone weapons which they find, and which had been in use before tools and weapons of iron were used there. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 151 The stones which the country people call elf-arrow heads. 1855 E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 31 The triangular flints, Belemnites, so numerous in Scotland..are popularly termed Elf arrows. < as lemmas |
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