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单词 slate-stone
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slate-stonen.

Forms: Also Middle English, Scottish1700s–1800s sklate, Middle English sklaytt, sclathe, 1500s–1600s (1800s Scottish) sclate.
Etymology: slate n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈslate-stone.
1. A single piece of slate, or of thin stone serving the same purpose.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > laminated stone
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone of the nature of slate > single piece of
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c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 307 He tuke þe knyght be þe nekk & drew hym oute þurgh þe thakk of þe howse...& his bowels cleuyd on þe sclathe stonys.
1493 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 164 Pro xxiiij sklaytt stonys pro prædictis cameris.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 271/1 Slate stone, ardoyse.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 514 The neighbour inhabitants use to digge great plenty of sclate stones for their buildings.
a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 7 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) All that have Corne beate it in Morters, and make Cakes, baking them upon Slatestones.
1720 A. Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 156 'Tis a' sklate~stanes instead of money.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 74 The famous Delabole Slate-stones.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 160 Then folk might see men deliver up their silver to the states' use, as if it had been as muckle sclate stanes.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. vi. 109 The huts were built of slate stones.
2. Stone of the nature of slate.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > slate
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > stone of the nature of slate
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1392 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 116 Pro coopertura cujusdam domus..cum sklatestane.
1748 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. I. 446 Blueish glittering slate Stone.
1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 51 In the slate-stone, they are generally crushed.
1792 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 320 The material of building being a coarse schistus, or slate stone.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. xiv. 409 These flags are employed for roofing purposes..and receive the name of ‘slatestone’.
attributive.1794 W. Marshall in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 65 The materials of these hills appear to be chiefly rotten slate, or rusty slate-stone rubble.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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