| 单词 | saddle stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmassaddle stone saddle stone n. (a) Architecture the stone forming the angle at the summit of the coping of a gable; (b) a stone with a saddle-shaped depression in its surface; spec. the base stone in a saddle quern (cf. metate n.). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gable > parts of skew1789 thack-gate1825 saddle stone1843 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 320/1 Modern gables too are generally awkwardly terminated at the eaves by..saddle-stones. 1890 Cent. Dict. Saddle-stone, an old name for a variety of stone containing saddle-shaped depressions. Also called ephippite. 1929 A. P. Usher Hist. Mech. Inventions iv. 103 The Egyptian woman grinding knelt behind the thicker end of the saddle stone which sloped away from her... Saddle stones are found among the remains of practically every primitive culture. 1932 G. M. Boumphrey Story of Wheel 42 The ‘saddle-stone’, which had a hollow face in which a smaller stone was rubbed backwards and forwards. 1997 P. Brett Illustr. Dict. Building 130 Saddle stone, a triangular-shaped stone used at the apex of a gable. < as lemmas |
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