| 单词 | fairy dart |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairy dart fairy dart n. Scottish and Irish English (now archaic and historical) a prehistoric arrowhead; cf. fairy arrow n. (a). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] fairy money1616 fairy dart1684 fairy hammer1815 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 1684 in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1757) IV. 304 The stones, which the [Irish] country people call elf-darts, or fairy darts. 1782 Catal. MS Brit. Mus. 474 Account of the Fairy dart, with a drawing of one. 1870 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable 284/1 Fairy-darts, flint arrow-heads now called celts. 1906 Chambers's Jrnl. 9 6/2 The fairy darts..are beautifully carved, and appear to be made of jade. 1979 N. Scheper-Hughes Saints, Scholars, & Schizophrenics (1982) i. 21/1 The arrowheads from the battle are still to be found... Older villagers attribute the postpartum wasting sickness of cows to these ‘fairy darts’. < as lemmas |
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