| 单词 | quarry hazle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasQuarry hazle 2. Originally and chiefly English regional (northern). Any of several varieties of fine to medium grained sandstone found in the north of England, typically harder than freestone and occurring between layers of limestone. Frequently with distinguishing word or phrase, as Slaty hazel, Quarry hazle, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > freestone or building stone Caen-stone1421 french peirec1620 Portland stone1633 grison stone1653 hazle1794 roach1911 1794 W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumberland I. 48 Hazell, Saxum cos, whitish freestone, lamellar; nothing above but Moss, &c. 1816 Trans. Geol. Soc. 3 63 Hard ferruginous fine grained sandstones called hazles by the miners. 1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. Gloss. Hazle, a hard, often cherty, gritstone. 1957 Proc. Geologists' Assoc. 68 240 He could find no trace of either it or the underlying Quarry Hazle in the Bowes region. 2007 S. M. Clarke Geol. of NY74SE, Nenthead, Cumbria (Brit. Geol. Surv. 2007) iii. 9 Small exposures of the lowermost beds overlying the uppermost beds of the Slaty Hazle..can be seen in the south-facing banks of Ash Gill. < as lemmas |
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