| 单词 | shark's teeth weapon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshark's teeth weapon shark-tooth n. (also shark's tooth) the tooth of a shark, also †= glossopetra n.; also attributive quasi-adj. in similative use; also in shark's teeth sword, shark's teeth weapon, a weapon armed with shark's teeth, in use among some pre-industrial peoples. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > tooth or parts of tooth > fossil shark-tooth1674 glossopetraa1684 ichthyodont1708 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > mouth > tooth or tusk > fossil tooth shark-tooth1674 odontolite1819 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] > armed club masuelc1312 macec1325 maulc1325 mell1333 brogged staff1429 balk-staffc1460 malleta1500 quarterstaff?1560 sport staff1634 morgenstern1637 roundhead1643 morning star1684 patu patu1769 patuc1771 shell-stick1790 holy water sprinkler1816 mace-head1824 shark's teeth sword1845 taiaha1845 1674 M. Lister Let. 20 Nov. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1977) XI. 129 I have had out of the Isle of Shepy in the river of Thames very sharkes Teeth dug up there, wch could not well be sayd to be petrifyed. 1692 J. Ray Misc. Disc. v. 132 I might have added Sharks-teeth or Glossopetræ. 1845 C. H. Smith in Kitto's Cycl. Biblical Lit. I. at Arms Fig. 99 Sharks-teeth Sword. 1853 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! vi Jagged shark's-tooth rock. 1885 W. T. Hornaday Two Years in Jungle xxii. 257 They certainly are more like shark-teeth than spines. 1886 Guide Exhib. Galleries Brit. Mus. 216 The singular armour made of cocoanut fibre, worn by the natives [of Micronesia] as a protection against the shark's teeth weapons. < as lemmas |
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