“shotty”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

shotty

释义

shotty, a.|ˈʃɒtɪ|
[f. shot n.¹ + -y.]
Resembling shot or pellets of lead; hard and round; spec. of gold: in the form of small, roundish lumps.
1860Mining Surveyors' Rep. (Mining Dept., Victoria) Aug. 236 There were also some very good patches of shotty gold and small nuggets found in the vicinity of this nugget.1875Ure's Dict. Arts III. 185 Weathered barley has a dull and often a dirty appearance, quite distinct from the bright shotty character of good samples.1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 248 These [points] soon increase in size, ultimately perhaps attaining the bulk of peas, and feeling hard and shotty between the fingers.1880Tea Advt., This tea..is brisk,..shotty in leaf, and heavy.1929E. J. Dunn Geol. Gold xix. 222 Pounds weight of ‘shotty’ gold..were washed from a dish of gravel.1959Observer 17 May 8/3 Odd old prospectors still fossick in the hills in search of shotty gold.

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