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单词 stick and groove
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stick and groove
P16. stick and groove: a method of producing fire using friction generated by rubbing a stick vigorously along a groove in a piece of wood; the pieces of wood used in this process. Cf. fire-plough n. at fire n. and int. Compounds 2a.
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1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind ix. 236 One of the simplest machines for producing fire is that which may be called the ‘stick-and-groove’. A blunt-pointed stick is run along a groove of its own making in a piece of wood lying on the ground.
1928 Man 28 13 The local method of fire-making is by the stick and groove.
1931 Oceania 2 143 A hole is dug and in it a fire is kindled by the stick and groove method.
1971 R. A. Tsanoff Civilization & Progress Epil. 359 The stick-and-groove or fire-saw or fire-plow, where a strip of bamboo or other readily inflammable wood is rubbed briskly across another.
2005 A. Delbanco Melville (2006) iii. 82 ‘Civilized’ man channels his libidinal energy..into tools far advanced over the native's stick and groove.
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