| 单词 | drake-stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrake-stone drake-stone n. a flat stone thrown along the surface of water so as alternately to graze it and rebound in its course. ΚΠ 1828 De Quincey in Blackwood's Mag. 24 907 It..reappears at a remote part of the sentence, like what is called a drake-stone on the surface of a river. 1847 T. De Quincey Protestantism in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 847/2 The boyish sport sometimes called ‘drake-stone’; a flattish stone is thrown by a little dexterity so as to graze the surface of a river. < as lemmas |
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