“calliard”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

calliard

释义

calliard local.|ˈkælɪəd|
[Of doubtful origin; perh. connected with F. caillou pebble, and so ultimately with L. calculus. But cf. the later galliard n.²]
A hard, smooth, flinty gritstone.
1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. (1873), Callierd, an hard stone.a1835J. Phillips Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 587/2 Some less regular sandstone beds, called ‘Cankstone’, approach very nearly to the nature of the ganister or calliard rocks of the coal strata.1865Page Handbk. Geol. Terms, Calliard.., a local name for any hard siliceous stone; often applied by English miners and quarrymen to beds of cherty or siliceous limestone.1876Woodward Geol. Eng. & Wales 81 Some of the beds contain gritstone or greywacke, provincially called ‘calliard’.

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