单词 | gold vault |
释义 | > as lemmasgold vault a. General attributive with the sense ‘of, relating to, or used for gold’; (also) ‘containing or yielding gold’; as gold lode, gold ore, gold scale, gold vault, gold vein, gold yield, etc. ΚΠ OE Andreas (1932) 1655 Sægde his fusne hige, þæt he þa goldburg ofgifan wolde, secga seledream ond sincgestreon, beorht beagselu. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 253 Schrift..haueð þilke muchele michten..deorewurðe ofer golt or [altered from golt hort; c1230 Corpus Cambr. gold or] & ȝimmes ouer [read of] inde. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. cii. 881 Ofte þe stoon lazulus is yfounde among siluer ore and among gold ore. 1442 in E. F. Jacob & H. C. Johnson Reg. Henry Chichele (1937) II. 617 (MED) Item, lego Willelmo Osbarn..stateram meam argenti vocatam goldbalance. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Aurum Venæ auri, golde veynes. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1270/1 The blacke stone, which the goldfiners had said to hold gold, and therefore called the same gold ore. 1638 A. Tounshend in H. Carey tr. V. Malvezzi Romulus & Tarquin To Author, A vj b In their Gold-scales to weigh both him and you. 1683 J. Pettus tr. L. Ercker ii. ii. 109 in Fleta Minor i There also Flinty and Horn-stony Gold Veins [Ger. Goltgäng]. 1703 C. Cibber She wou'd & she wou'd Not i. 2 Flo. Pray, what's in the portmanteau?..Hyp. In it are jewels of value,..good gold store,..and credential letters. 1745 J. Serle Plan of Mr. Pope's Gardens 8 A fine Piece of Gold Ore from the Peruvian Mines. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 352 Some promising gold-lodes have also been found. 1882 Calif. Jrnl. Mines & Geol. 2 165 If we consider the year 1877, we see that the percentage of gold yield is shared by the different districts, as follows. 1930 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 30/2 An elaborate system of safeguards that protects the gold vaults of the Bank of France. 1991 RTZ Rev. Dec. 5/1 Two large gold deposits..containing about 50 million tonnes of ore. 2017 Western Advocate (Nexis) 3 Mar. A set of gold scales, made by Avery in England, and used at Sunny Corner during the gold rush. < as lemmas |
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