| 释义 |
‖ mano Anthropol.|ˈmɑːnəʊ|
[Sp. mano hand.]
A primitive stone implement, held in the hand and used for grinding cereals and other foodstuffs.
1901Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1899 37 The grinding-stone concordantly changes from a simple roller or crusher to a mano (or muller), and finally to a pestle, at first broad and short, but afterwards long and slender. 1911W. K. Moorehead Stone Age N. Amer. II. xxvii. 103 The stones used on these [mortars] are flat, or oval water-worn stones and not finished, like mano stones common to the Cliff Dweller country. 1944G. C. Vaillant Aztecs Mexico (1950) i. 35 The flat grinding-stones and mullers, still used in Mexico and called metates and manos, prove that the people relied on corn as their principal food. 1959E. Tunis Indians 119/2 The grinding was done by rubbing the grains across it with another stone, the mano, held in the hands. 1960C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 342/2 Mano, a cylindrically shaped grindstone slightly tapered at both ends. It was held in the hand (whence its name handstone) and used as the upper stone in milling. 1964A. D. Krieger in Jennings & Norbeck Prehist. Man in New World 32 The most important new trait, however, is that of food-grinding with stone implements: basin-shaped milling stones and manos. 1971[see indigenization]. 1972Sci. Amer. May 89/3 From the Maya Mountains came the metamorphic rock used to make not only axe heads of stone but also the manos, or stone rollers. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XI. 936/2 They [sc. villagers of the Ocós and Cuadros phases of Meso-American civilization] were productive corn farmers as well, raising a small-eared race of maize called Nal-Tel, which their wives and daughters ground on metates and manos and cooked in globular jars. |