单词 | well-rolled |
释义 | well-rolledadj. Fully or thoroughly rolled flat or smooth. ΚΠ 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation vi. vi. 224/2 The Walks must be kept well Rolled. 1759 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 430/2 O'er level roads we drive amain, Roads as the well-roll'd terras plain. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 351 We tread the wilderness, whose well-roll'd walks [etc.]. 1821 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 3 256 A few well rolled granites, puddingstones and an occasional greenstone do however occur among the calcareous matter. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times ix. 288 This layer..contains many well-rolled tertiary pebbles. 1922 H. E. Fosdick Christianity & Progress i. 40 Human history is not a smooth and well-rolled lawn of soft ascents. 1996 Times 20 May 29/4 A Sussex clifftop that affords a sweeping view of a markedly well-rolled ground and the English Channel beyond. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1686 |
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