单词 | crouched |
释义 | crouchedadj. a. Bowed, bent together. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > act of drawing body into compact form > [adjective] crouched1848 scruncheda1902 1848 J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante Inferno xiv Sitting all crouched up. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xix. 362 The Lady Godiva sat crouched together. b. spec. in Archaeology. Of a burial: with the body in a crouching posture, usually on its side. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > types of burial or entombment > [adjective] > with corpse in specific posture crouched1915 flexed1952 1898 A. H. L. F. Pitt-Rivers Excav. Cranborne Chase IV. 82 On the near side of the collection of interments are seen Nos. 1 and 2 crouched on the right side.] 1915 H. R. Hall Ægean Archæol. vi. 160 Primitive Hockergräber (crouched burials) have also been found at Tiryns. 1925 A. Keith Antiq. Man (ed. 2) II. iii. 48 This ‘crouched’ burial had been made by the people who lived on the old land surface and worked the Neolithic flints. 1954 S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures Brit. Isles ii. 49 A second barrow..contained a crouched skeleton. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < adj.1848 |
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