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单词 falcation
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falcationn.

Etymology: < Latin falc-em sickle: see -ation suffix.
Obsolete.
1. The condition of being falcate; concrete a falcate outgrowth or appendage, hook.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > hook-shaped > a hook-shaped thing or part
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. iii. 236 The Locusts have..a long falcation or forcipated tayle behinde. View more context for this quotation
1715 W. Derham Astro-theol. v. i. 107 In whose [the Moon and Venus'] Falcations the dark part of their Globes may be perceived.
2. (See quot.)
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Falcation, a mowing or cutting with Bill or Hook.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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