单词 | gravel-stone |
释义 | gravel-stonen. 1. One of the stones of which gravel is mainly composed; a pebble. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > pebble chesila700 pebbleOE pebble stoneOE gravel-stonec1450 calionc1459 pimble stone1577 rockstone1625 shilly1675 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. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > granulated stone saxum1706 gravel-stonec1720 c1720 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture III. x. 22 Stone, or gravel-stone, or any soft stone. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > concretion stonec1000 felta1548 toph1598 gravel-stone1606 tophus1607 concretion1646 talusa1728 calculus1732 osteid1855 concrement1885 inolith1886 milkstone1892 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 74 Voiding at length little gravell-stones by urine, he was eased of that paine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1450 |
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