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单词 clay-stone
释义

clay-stonen.

Forms: see clay n. and stone n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: clay n., stone n.
Etymology: < clay n. + stone n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈclay-stone.
1. ? Brick. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 5524 Baþ clay stane and morter.
2. Mineralogy. An earthy feldspathic rock of igneous origin, and of various dull colours: the harder varieties were known as compact feldspar. When breathed on it emits an odour of damp clay.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > other igneous
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1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 149 A kind of brown talcous clay-stone..common to all New Zeeland.
1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 153 A reddish coloured claystone, amygdaloid, very vesicular.
1850 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. xiii. 584 The clay~stone has a dark greenish-brown colour.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xx. 267 Smoking out of curiously carved pipes of the red claystone.
1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) vii. 134.

Compounds

clay-stone porphyry n. a clay-stone of more crystalline texture.
ΚΠ
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. x. 271 Shale, occasionally hardening into an exceedingly compact clay-stone, or clay-stone porphyry.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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