单词 | tilestone |
释义 | tilestonen.ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > tile > [noun] tilea725 tilestonea1100 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > [noun] tilea1325 potc1384 tilestonec1425 cloam1659 earthenware1670 pig1808 a1100 Gloss. in Eng. Studien XI. 66 Hec imbrex, tigel~stan. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xi. 3 Cometh, & make we tile [a1425 L.V. tiel] stoons, and sethe we hem with fier. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. ix. 10 Tijl stoonys fellen doun, but we schulen bilde with square stoonys. c1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 82 Tak a tile stone or a scarþe of a potte, and putte it in þe middez of brynnyng colez. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 233 Oon ston was of marbole,..that other was of tyleston. ?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 3v A siely simple argiue woman kilde hym [sc. Pyrrhus] with a litle Tilestone. 1600 T. Nashe Summer's Last Will in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) VIII. 25 For fear of wearing out my lord's tile-stones with your hobnails. 1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum iv. 42 Dry them upon a Fire-shovel or Tilestone, or in an Oven. 2. Geology. Any laminated flagstone, splitting into layers thicker than slate, suitable for roofing tiles; spec. a group of sandstones forming the transition beds between the Silurian and Devonian systems. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > laminated stone slat-stone1391 slate-stonec1450 slate1455 slate1653 tilestone1668 shivera1728 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > for roofing thack-stone1442 rigging stone1471 hilling-stone1660 tilestone1668 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 242 Saxum Fissile..Slate or Tyle-stone. 1719 J. Strachey in Philos. Trans. 1717–19 (Royal Soc.) 30 971 At Stanton they have..an Iron-Gritt or grey Tile-Stone, which is a Fore-runner of the Coal-Clives. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Norton under Hambden-Hill Large quarries of free-stone,..as well as of tile-stone, &c. 1842 Sedgwick in Hudson Guide Lakes (1843) 213 Three groups—the lowest characterized by red flagstone (or ‘tilestone’). 1876 A. H. Green Geol. for Students: Physical Geol. ii. §7 If the layers are thin enough for roofing purposes the rock is called a Tilestone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1100 |
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