| 单词 | quick gravel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquick gravel ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > quicksand quick gravela1300 quicksanda1300 sucking sand1513 Syrtis1526 sinking sand1531 syrt1574 Serbonian boga1618 flow1819 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > stony material > [noun] > sand sandc825 gravela1300 a1300 Cursor Mundi 2347 Naman suld cun sume ne neuen..Namar þen grauel in þe see. a1325 Prose Psalter lxxvii[i]. 31 He rained..volatils feþered as grauel of þe se. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter i. 1 The rightwisman passis that way swiftly, as he that gas on qwik grauel, that gers him synk that standis thar on. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iii. metr. x. 74 Alle the thinges that the Ryver tagus geueth yow with hys goldene grauayles. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxiii. 150 In þat riuer er many precious stanes..and mykill grauell of gold. c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 1624 My synne passes in noumbre the gravell..in the see. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 5 All is lost that is yeuen vnto them, right as the reyne falleth vpon the grauel. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. iv. sig. Ff2 All the grauell mixt with golden owre. 1711 J. Swift Midas 1 People travel From far, to gather golden Gravel. < as lemmas |
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