cabookn.

/kəˈbuːk/

Forms: Also kabook.

Etymology: ‘Perhaps the Portuguese cabouco or cavouco a quarry. It is not in Singh. Dictionaries' (Yule).

The name given in Sri Lanka to a reddish gneissoid building-stone, soft when quarried but hardening by exposure to the air; laterite.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > other types of building stone

rag1313

mould-stone1353

Caen-stone1421

ornel1432

Yorkshire stone1569

Portland stone1633

bluestone1709

fieldstone1797

whitbed1812

water stone1815

cabook1834

chimney rock1847

Ham Hill stone1889

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > mineral soil > others

alum earth1612

cabook1834

laterite1893

ferricrete1902

murram1912

opal dirt1925

allite1930

Oxisol1960

1834 S. C. Chitty Ceylon Gazetteer 75 The houses are built of cabook, and neatly whitewashed with chunam.

1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 452/2 A reddish loam resulting from the decomposition of clay iron-stone called cabook.

1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon I. 17 Laterite, or, as the Singhalese call it, cabook, a product of distintegrated gneiss.

1941 Archit. Rev. 90 75/1 In more expensive types of building solid walls—of cabook, or stone and mud, or occasionally brick—replace the bamboo framework.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	cabook
释义	cabookn. /kəˈbuːk/ Forms: Also kabook. Etymology: ‘Perhaps the Portuguese cabouco or cavouco a quarry. It is not in Singh. Dictionaries' (Yule). The name given in Sri Lanka to a reddish gneissoid building-stone, soft when quarried but hardening by exposure to the air; laterite. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > other types of building stone rag1313 mould-stone1353 Caen-stone1421 ornel1432 Yorkshire stone1569 Portland stone1633 bluestone1709 fieldstone1797 whitbed1812 water stone1815 cabook1834 chimney rock1847 Ham Hill stone1889 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > mineral soil > others alum earth1612 cabook1834 laterite1893 ferricrete1902 murram1912 opal dirt1925 allite1930 Oxisol1960 1834 S. C. Chitty Ceylon Gazetteer 75 The houses are built of cabook, and neatly whitewashed with chunam. 1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 452/2 A reddish loam resulting from the decomposition of clay iron-stone called cabook. 1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon I. 17 Laterite, or, as the Singhalese call it, cabook, a product of distintegrated gneiss. 1941 Archit. Rev. 90 75/1 In more expensive types of building solid walls—of cabook, or stone and mud, or occasionally brick—replace the bamboo framework. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1834
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