| 单词 | flint and steel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflint and steel a. This stone, or a fragment of it, with reference to its property of giving off sparks when struck with iron or steel. flint and steel: an apparatus consisting of a piece of each of these substances used for procuring fire by the ignition of tinder, touchwood, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > flint or steel flinta700 firestoneeOE pyritesOE steelc1220 fire ironc1300 pyrite stonec1475 fire striker1483 furisonc1540 fusil1580 fire steel1585 flintstone1585 tindern iron1586 marcasite1682 briquet1823 fleerish1825 strike-a-light1870 a700 Epinal Gloss. 805 Petrafocaria, flint. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 469 Petra focaria, fyrstan, flint. c1330 Amis & Amil. 1321 Sir Amiloun, as fer of flint, With wrethe anon to him he wint. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cv As fyre that fleis fra the flynt. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. D2v When the steele and the flint be knockde togither, a man may light his match by the sparkle. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 249 It lyes as coldly in him, as fire in a flint . View more context for this quotation 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 46 Sparks struck from a Flint and a Steel. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. vi. 187 Ugo found a flint, and the torch was lighted. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles ii. xxvi. 70 As from the flint the fire, Flash'd forth at once his generous ire. 1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 81 The flint and steel, which a French peasant carries for the service of his pipe. < as lemmas |
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