单词 | droved |
释义 | drovedadj. Of stonework: dressed, esp. in parallel lines, using a drove (drove n. 5); cut or hewn in this way. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [adjective] > dressed or hewn hewnc1400 hewed1551 broached1625 droved1754 tooled1815 spalled1867 dressed1870 boasted1884 scutched1893 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [adjective] > having undergone other processes alumed1574 splinted1616 scribed1678 cold-drawn1716 droved1754 cool-drawn1774 swaged1842 spliced1859 chiselled1873 steam-cured1909 refinished1910 precast1914 fibrillated1929 plasticized1937 foamed1943 1754 Contract Building Exchange Edinb. 21 The whole chimney-heads of droved free-stone. 1830 J. Gray Introd. Arithm. 98 The Droved hewn-work of said house: the rybats and lintels of 6 windows..6 soles of ditto. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 519 In Scotland, besides the above described sorts of work, there are some other kinds termed droved, broached, and striped. Droving is the same as that called random tooling in England, or boasting in London. 2010 A. Chessell Coldstream Building Snippets ii. 29 All the curved and flat stones have droved margins and this gives a particularly pleasing decorative effect on the concave and convex surfaces. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1754 |
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