单词 | stoning |
释义 | stoningn. The action of the verb, in various senses. 1. Pelting with stones; esp. (in ancient times) as a form of capital punishment. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > stoning stoninga1400 lapidation1611 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > [noun] > stoning stoninga1400 lapidement1483 lapidation1802 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19467 Quils þai him wit staning queld. c1400 Sc. Trojan War ii. 1595 With mony bitter panes Of stanyng of hir moder schene. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 477/1 Stonynge, lapidacio. 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Lapidatio, a stonyng, a hurlynge of stones. 1657 N. Billingsley Brachy-martyrologia viii. 27 The Christians underwent all wrongs, As Scourgings, stonings. 1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 42 They..sentenc'd him..To die by stoning. 1886 C. Bigg Christian Platonists Alexandria iv. 117 He narrowly escaped stoning in the streets. 2. Paving, building up, or repairing with stones. Also concrete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] mason-craft1412 masonry?a1425 cementary1586 masoning1678 stonework1793 stoning1797 stone-masonry1818 stone-working1875 1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 13 These roads..are laid..upon wood, (after..stoneing about ten or twelve inches thick for a foundation). 1819 A. Rees Cycl. XV Garland..a spiral groove, made behind and in the stoning or ginging of a shaft, for collecting the water which oozes out of different strata. 1867 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 3 ii. 664 At the entrances to large rivers it was sometimes necessary..to have careful stoning, because the work was frequently tested by heavy seas. 3. Rubbing or scouring with a stone. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > rubbing or scouring card stoning1688 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 92/2 (Wool carding) Stoning of it [sc. the Card] is burnishing of it. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 387/1 In machine currying the tanned hides..are struck out in a ‘stoning’ machine. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 868/1 Stoning Jack, a machine in which the jack is furnished with a stock stone to work the leather. 4. Clearing (ground) of stones; taking the stones out (of fruit). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > of stones stoning1628 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing fruit and vegetables > [noun] > stoning fruit stoning1747 pitting1887 1628 Bp. J. Hall Serm. Publike Fast 27 To what purpose is the fruitfulnesse, fencing, stoning, if the ground yeeld a plentifull Crop of..Weedes? 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xviii. 154 To preserve Gooseberries whole without stoning. 5. Formation of the stone in fruit. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > stone-fruit or drupe > stone or formation of stone bonec1384 stone?1523 nut1600 ossiculum1706 paip1721 putamen1793 pyrene1800 pit1803 stoning1842 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 475 The setting and stoning of fruit... The fruit is thinned before and after the stoning season. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 484 When the stoning is completed and the fruit begins to swell. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). stoningadj. That stones, in senses of the verb; †petrifying. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > formation of rock or stone > [adjective] > petrifying petrificant1603 stoning1623 lapidescent1644 petrifactive1646 petrifying1649 petrous1657 petrescent1661 petrific1667 lapidifying1669 1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. To Rdrs. ⁋4 To mould the dow of artificiall marble, and bake it in Killes for building..or tempered with clammy and stoning waters, to plaster and polish it with tooles appliable vnto all formes. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. iv. 68 A man whose appearance breathed of offering her common ground, whereon to meet and speak together, unburdened by the hunting world, and by the stoneing world. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.a1400adj.1623 |
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