| 单词 | oven-stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoven-stone oven-stone n. a stone which closes the mouth of an oven; (also) a kind of stone used for building ovens. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > oven > stone closing mouth of oven-stone1602 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone for other specific building use stepping1608 oven-stone1836 revetting1839 walling stone1840 landing1847 1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife iii. iii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 54 Bid the cook take down the oven-stone, [lest] the pies be burned. 1836 J. Murray Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent 251/2 The cave-like excavations of Bell, whence oven-stone (pierre au four) is obtained. 1994 Nature 4 Aug. 332/1 Without any volcanic stone as raw material, they learned to fashion adzes from giant clam shells, ovenstones from limestones cobbles and fishhooks from inferior local pearlshell. < as lemmas |
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