单词 | antler beam |
释义 | > as lemmasantler beam a. In sense 2, as antler beam, antler tine, etc. ΚΠ 1864 Bath Chron. 21 Sept. (Brit. Assoc. Special Daily ed.) 5/1 The gravels of the Tone have yielded also a splendid pair of antler-beams. 1883 Science 4 May 373/1 In the trench, on the clay, there were found..a fragment of a stone gorget, worked antler-tips, and several rude arrow-points. 1954 S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures Brit. Isles ii. 43 The same floor produced three antler tines, and Floor 58..another, associated with a heap of minute flakes, indicating their use as pressure-flakers. 1977 A. Russell Andy Russell's Adventures with Wild Animals (1991) ii. 53 Aspen or cottonwood stains the antler beams and points a rich tan shade, and willows make them a bit darker. 1979 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 830/2 He also referred to the antler buds themselves as nummins. 1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) ii. iii. 54/1 Across species, antler size increases with body size. 2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 59 Flakes of flint are detached by exerting downward and outward pressure on the edge of the core using a relatively sharp tool—originally an antler tine, or a sharpened piece of bone or hardwood. < as lemmas |
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