单词 | rider stone |
释义 | > as lemmasrider stone rider stone n. now historical (a) Mining (the name of) a stratum of ironstone within the coal measures of Staffordshire, England; (b) = rider millstone n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > millstone > upper rider millstone1548 rider stone1665 1665 D. Dudley Mettallum Martis sig. D5v Now for the names of the iron-stone, the first measure is called the Black-row-graines... The second measure is the Dun-row-graines... The third measure is called the white row grains,..under these three..are..the Rider Stone; secondly, the Cloud Stone; thirdly, the bottom Stone; fourthly, the Cannock or Cannotstone. 1727 J. Strachey Observ. Different Strata Earths & Minerals 17/4 (table) The Rider-Stone. 1836 E. Robinson tr. W. Gesenius Hebrew & Eng. Lex. O.T. 824/2 The upper stone..i.e. the rider stone. 1906 W. Willis-Bund & W. Page Victoria Hist. Worcester II. 268/2 At a much lower stratum, Rider Stone, Cloud Stone, and Cannock or Cannot Stone. 1963 Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Surv.) (ed. 4) 80 In its most primitive form it [sc. the quern] was no more than a large slab of suitably abrasive stone on which a rider stone was worked up and down to crush the corn (saddle quern). < as lemmas |
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