| 单词 | medicine wheel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmedicine wheel medicine wheel n. one of various circular or radiating arrangements of stones built by ancient North American Indian peoples of the Great Plains, presumed to have religious, astronomical, territorial, or calendrical significance; also spec. (with capital initials) the large construction of this type in the Big Horn mountains of northern Wyoming. ΚΠ 1895 Forest & Stream 28 Sept. 269/2 On the very top of Medicine Mountain can still be seen the so-called Medicine Wheel, the plan and the general arrangement of which bear a striking resemblance to the famous Calendar Stone of Old Mexico. As the name implies, this Medicine Wheel is a circle composed of loose stones. 1922 Amer. Anthropologist 24 219 The so-called Medicine Wheel, in Wyoming, has long been known to a few white men and always to the Indians. 1953 Herald Mag. 26 Oct. 3/4 I had opportunity in recent weeks of inspecting three well-defined and well preserved circles of stones, best known as Indian tepee rings or medicine wheels. 1992 Canad. Geographic July 53/1 The very term medicine wheel is a misnomer coined by white people. American settlers and miners invented the expression in the 1880s when Indians directed them to a stone ring in Wyoming. < as lemmas |
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