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单词 earth pillar
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earth pillar
earth pillar n. a column of soft rock or earth formed by erosion or other natural agency, typically having a cap of harder rock; cf. hoodoo n. 5, spire n.1 7a.
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1795 D. Walker Gen. View Agric. Herts. 11 The earth-pillars have been found to descend 50 feet and upwards.
1885 P. M. Duncan Lyell's Student's Elem. Geol. (ed. 4) vi. 82 Earth-pillars with stones on their tops are relics of the country worn away all around them.
1995 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 3 Jan. 2 Large earth pillars that rise from the valley floor like the pipes of a giant cathedral organ.
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