| 单词 | grey wethers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrey wethers 3. grey wethers: boulders of hard sandstone found lying on the surface of the Downs in Wiltshire and Devon. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [noun] > a rock > boulder > types of whinstonea1585 Saracen's stone1644 grey wethers1660 sarsena1697 grey goose1816 Moeraki boulder1879 1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 49 Upon the Downs between Marleborough and Aubury..are to be found abundance of great stones, commonly called by the Country thereabout, the Gray Weathers. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. 291 A course sort of Jasper Stones, knockt off from those in Wilts-shire near Marleborough, called The Grey-Weathers. 1743 W. Stukeley Abury 48 An infinite quantity of immense stones, or sarsens, or gray-weathers. 1801 H. Skrine Rivers Great Brit. 331 Those vast stones called ‘The Grey Withers [sic]’, are scattered irregularly about the country. 1835 Penny Cycl. III. 163/2 Detached oolitic sandstones of various sizes, known by the name of the Grey Wethers. < as lemmas |
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