| 单词 | fire-drilling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire-drilling fire-drilling n. now chiefly historical the action or process of starting a fire with a fire drill. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire > setting on fire or alight > making or kindling of fire > specific method fire-drilling1865 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind ix. 237 It comes much nearer than ‘fire-drilling’ to the yet simpler process of striking fire with two pieces of split bamboo. 1942 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 47 535 The methods by which such epoch-making innovations as, say, fire-drilling, gained acceptance in early times. 2006 L. E. Wright Diet, Health & Status among Pasión Maya iv. 42/1 Coggins..suggests that mirrors were used in ritual fire-drilling in order to light a new fire to restart the annual agricultural cycle. < as lemmas |
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