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单词 droved
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drovedadj.

Brit. /drəʊvd/, U.S. /droʊvd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: drove n., -ed suffix2.
Etymology: < drove n. (compare drove n. 5) + -ed suffix2. Compare later drove v.3
Of stonework: dressed, esp. in parallel lines, using a drove (drove n. 5); cut or hewn in this way.
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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).
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