| 单词 | limpet-shaped | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaslimpet-shaped  c.  attributive and in other combinations, as  limpet rock,  limpet shell;  limpet-shaped,  limpet-shelled adjs.   limpet-hammer n. a stone tool believed to have been used by prehistoric peoples to knock limpets off rocks. ΚΠ 1577    W. Harrison Descr. Eng. 		(1877)	  ii. xiii.  i. 255  				The worke~men happened oftentimes upon lempet shels. 1786    R. Burns Poems 31  				Triumphant crushan't like a muscle Or limpet shell. 1818    J. Keats Epist. to J. H. Reynolds 88  				The first page I read Upon a Lampit rock of green sea-weed Among the breakers. 1822    J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 615  				Limpet-shelled blain. 1885    S. Grieve Great Auk 57  				We were puzzling ourselves as to what could be the use of the numerous oblong stones we met with among the [limpet] shells, and..he..informed us they were limpet-hammers. 1885    S. Grieve Great Auk 57  				Subsequent enquiries have only helped to confirm us in the opinion that the large oblong stones found at Caistealnan-Gillean are really limpet-hammers. 1897    M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 17  				The hat..a large limpet-shaped affair made of palm leaves. < as lemmas | 
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