| 单词 | fairy arrow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairy arrow fairy arrow n. (also fairies' arrow) colloquial (a) a Neolithic flint arrowhead; cf. elf-arrow n. at elf n.1 Compounds 3, elf-shot n. 2 (now archaic and historical); †(b) a belemnite or similar sharp pointed fossil (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > types of astroite1610 belemnite1646 mussel-stone1660 scallop-stone1668 trochite1676 conchite1677 ophiomorphite1677 pectinite1677 worm-stone1677 musculite1681 serpent-stone1681 sugar-plum1681 glossopetraa1684 ague shell1708 forket1708 mytilite1727 grit1748 phytolithus1761 fairy beads1767 fairy fingers1780 fairy arrow1794 gryphite1794 ram's horn1797 hysterolite1799 tubulite1799 thunder-pick1801 celleporite1808 ceraunite1814 seraph1822 serpulite1828 coprolite1829 subfossil1831 pencil1843 trigonellite1845 buccinite1852 rudist1855 guide fossil1867 witch's cradle1867 coccolith1868 fairy cheeses1869 discolith1871 Portland screw1871 spiniferite1872 cyatholith1875 cryptozoon1883 sabellite1889 palaeospecies1895 homoeomorph1898 rudistid1900 megafossil1932 scolecodont1933 macrofossil1937 hystrichosphere1955 palynomorph1961 acritarch1963 molecular fossil1965 mitrate1967 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > prehistoric arrow-head elf-arrow1590 arrowhead?1661 fairy dart1782 fairy stone1791 flint-head1796 projectile point1847 leaf arrowhead1878 fairy arrow1903 1794 W. Sutherland in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. X. 15 The common people confidently assert that they [sc. celts] are fairies' arrows, which they shoot at cattle. 1800 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 107 The Belemnites, called by the Germans alphen-schos, i.e. fairy arrows. 1803 Gazetteer Sc. at Lauder Adderstones, and arrow points of flint, commonly called elf or fairy arrows. 1903 Independent (N.Y.) 26 Nov. 2802/1 The neolithic arrow heads are called ‘fairy arrows’, saigheadon shith, or ‘elf shots’. 1995 I. E. Tattersall Fossil Trail i. 8 Flaked flint tools..were..petrified thunderbolts, fairy arrows, exhalations of the clouds. < as lemmas |
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