“finger-stone”的英文意思

单词

finger-stone

释义

ˈfinger-stone
†1. A stone sufficiently small to be cast by the hand. Also attrib. Obs.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xi. 46 A lytil þeine, as it ware a fynger stane cast, es anoþer chapell.1688I. Clayton in Phil. Trans. XVII. 984 They are so nigh the Shoar, that a Man may almost fling a Finger-stone on Board.
2. A cylindrical stone, convexly tapering to a point; a belemnite.
1773Johnson (ed. 4), Finger-stone, a fossil resembling an arrow.1802–3tr. Pallas's Trav. (1812) II. 229 A whimsical mixture of broken belemnites, or finger-stones.

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