| 单词 | gingerbread stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgingerbread stone a. English regional (chiefly midlands and East Anglian). Sedimentary rock with a distinctive dark reddish-brown colour resulting from oxidation of iron compounds; esp. a hard sandstone used as a building stone (= carstone n.). More fully gingerbread stone. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > sandstone > others firestone1399 hassock1461 red stone1602 penistone1688 bluestone1709 gingerbread1714 brownstone1780 molasse1794 Old Red Sandstone1805 chip sand1808 fox-bench1816 New Red Sandstone1818 grey band1824 arkose1839 cankstone1845 St. Bees Sandstone1865 pietra serena1873 Ham Hill stone1889 1714 J. Jurin Let. 2 Sept. in Corr. (1996) 73 The Stratum..is aptly enough call'd by the Workmen the Gingerbread Stone in depth about 7 or 8 inches. 1811 W. Watson Delineation Strata of Derbyshire 13 (table) Ironstone, in finger-shaped nodules, consisting of Concentric Laminæ..Gingerbread. 1884 Trans. Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Soc. 3 442 ‘Carstone’..gives a character to the houses and churches of the neighbourhood, and is even vulgarly spoken of as ‘Gingerbread-stone’. 1901 Victoria County Hist.: Norfolk I. 5 A brown friable rock known as ‘Gingerbread Stone’, which is largely quarried and hewn into shape at Snettisham. 1964 Trans. & Papers (Inst. Brit. Geographers) 35 110 Only the top 10-12 feet of the most oxidized top layers—known locally as ‘gingerbread’—were taken. 1990 F. G. Dimes in J. Ashurst & F. G. Dimes Conservation of Building & Decorative Stone I. iv. 81/1 (caption) Brick dressings with carstone (‘gingerbread stone’) were used for HM The Queen's Stud, Sandringham. 2011 Oxf. Times (Nexis) 10 Feb. (Property section) (headline) Gingerbread home named after old farming family. < as lemmas |
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