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单词 gravel-stone
释义

gravel-stonen.

Etymology: < gravel n. + stone n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgravel-stone.
1. One of the stones of which gravel is mainly composed; a pebble. Also figurative.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > pebble
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pebbleOE
pebble stoneOE
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pimble stone1577
rockstone1625
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dornick1840
klip1852
jackstone1885
yonnie1941
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 304 Þise grauelstonys, þat is, coueytous thoutys..arn so scharpe & hevy as grauel.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xlviii. D Thy sede shalbe like as the sonde in the see, & the frute of thy body, like the grauel stones thereof.
1650 Bp. J. Taylor Funerall Serm. Countesse of Carbery 4 The unevenness of a gravel-stone.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 130 Bees bear Gravel Stones, whose poising Weight Steers thro' the whistling Winds their steddy Flight. View more context for this quotation
1795 A. Anderson Narr. Brit. Embassy China viii. 99 The lateral parts are laid with gravel stones.
1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. vii. 121 Mingled with small gravel stones and thick loam.
2. A kind of stone, having the appearance of consolidated gravel; ? conglomerate. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > granulated stone
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c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture III. x. 22 Stone, or gravel-stone, or any soft stone.
3. = calculus n. 1. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > concretion
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tophus1607
concretion1646
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calculus1732
osteid1855
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milkstone1892
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 74 Voiding at length little gravell-stones by urine, he was eased of that paine.
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