| 单词 | shoe-last |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshoe-last shoe-last n. = last n.1 2; also figurative; also used attributively in Archaeology to designate or with reference to polished stone implements, flat on one side and curved on the other, found in the area of neolithic Danubian culture. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > last tree1541 boot-last1611 shoe-last1647 boot-tree1766 shoe-tree1827 hobbing foot1866 shoe-stretcher1875 hobbing boot1907 the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > artefacts scyphus1722 ceraunite1814 skyphos1847 shaft-hole1852 ostracon1853 scramasax1862 shard1865 ovate1872 omphalos1884 stop-ridge1894 tsung1904 pygmy flint1907 spacer1907 dotaku1908 yuan1912 roughout1913 rostro-carinate1919 shawabti1922 racloir1923 shoe-last1927 sleeve1929 ard1931 proto-biface1967 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A shoe-last, een schoe-leest. 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xi. 81 An instrument..proposed for the purpose of making shoe-lasts. 1879 G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1955) 76 Look upon them [sc. suggestions] as shoelasts on which to shape your final handiwork. 1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Priests & Kings vi. 126 They had..stone celts or hoes, among which is a type, not unlike that found in the Danube basin, known as the shoe-last celt. 1929 V. G. Childe Danube in Prehist. 40 The universal stone implement of the Danubian I culture is the polished adze or hoe... It may be termed a ‘shoe-last’ celt, though strictly that name should be confined to the narrow chisel-like specimens. 1961 G. Clark World Prehist. vi. 126 Boian pioneers..used a variety of stone tools, including adze-blades of bevelled and shoe-last form. 1970 W. Bray & D. Trump Dict. Archaeol. 210/2 Shoe-last adze or celt, a long thin stone adze employed by the Danubian farmers of the Early Neolithic, possibly as a hoe for cultivating their fields. < as lemmas |
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