单词 | bread crust |
释义 | bread crustn.adj. A. n. The hard outer surface of a loaf of baked bread (= crust n. 1a); a piece of this cut from a loaf or slice of bread (= crust n. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > piece of bread > [noun] > crust of slice crustc1325 bread crusta1556 a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iii. sig. B.ijv Olde browne bread crustes must haue much good mumblyng, But good ale downe your throte hath good easie tumbling. 1727 R. Bradley Country Gentleman & Farmer's Monthly Director (ed. 3) 75 Give them Bread Crusts boil'd in Milk. 1871 When I was Little Girl (ed. 2) 24 I had a piece of bread and butter for my luncheon every morning, and the crust of it was often a serious incumbrance to me... Bread-crusts are not nice things. 2002 Time 2 Dec. 101/2 New research suggests that bread crust may contain a cancer-fighting antioxidant, pronyl-lysine. B. adj. As a modifier. Geology. Designating a structure or texture resembling that of bread crust. Frequently in breadcrust bomb n. a volcanic bomb (see bomb n. 5) with a hard glassy crust that has many deep cracks. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > ejected volcanic material > [noun] > volcanic bomb bomb1780 breadcrust bomb1888 1888 H. J. Johnston-Lavis in Nature 29 Nov. 110/1 This is accompanied by fissuring of the external hardened surface, just as the expansion of dough splits open the crust, as the air-bubbles expand before and after the loaf is in the oven—in fact, we could not adopt a better term to define this structure than bread-crust structure. 1890 H. J. Johnston-Lavis in Nature 22 May 78/2 They found at the base of the cone an enormous number of the bread-crust bombs, the mode of formation of which I have already described and explained. 1987 R. A. F. Cas & J. V. Wright Volcanic Successions iii. 49/1 (caption) Breadcrust surface on a rhyolitic bomb whose outer chilled surface crust has been cracked open due to vesiculation and expansion of the interior. 2018 @BobGooday 27 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 8 Mar. 2019) This is a breadcrust bomb from the vent itself. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.a1556 |
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