| 单词 |
flintstone |
| 释义 |
ˈflintstone [f. flint n. + stone.] 1. = flint n. 1.
c1340Cursor M. 20897 (Fairf.) Soroufully þen fel he doun In liknes of flint-stane. 1375Cantic. de Creatione 983 in Anglia I, Out of þe flynt ston Moyses dede ywis water out rennen. 1535Coverdale Ps. cxiii[i]. 8 The God of Iacob..turned..the flynt stone in to a sprynginge well. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. xxi. 64 And the earth became as flint-stone. 2. = flint n. 2, 3.
c1400Mandeville (1839) v. 50 Men kutten the Braunches with a scharp Flyntston. c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 768/19 Silex, a flyntstone. 1535Coverdale Isa. l. 7, I haue hardened my face like a flynt stone. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxix. 151 Prometheus..was..the firste that stroke fire out of the flint stone. 1638Sanderson Serm. II. 111 You may as soon squeeze water out of a flintstone. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus xxiii. 4 Each for penury fit to tooth a flint-stone. |

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