单词 | hazle |
释义 | hazlen. Now rare. 1. Earth containing a mixture of sand, clay, and gravel. Chiefly (and in earliest use) attributive, as hazel earth, hazel ground, hazel loam, hazel mould, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > mixed with sand and clay hazelly1587 hazle1587 1587 [implied in: A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1543/1 The stuffe carried..for the erection of the walles at Douer, was earth, being of a haselie mould, chalke and sleech. (at hazelly adj.1)]. 1598 I. R. Fitzherbert's Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) i. iii. 3 Some neither Sand nor Clay, but like a mixture of both, yet neither, which is called a Hassell ground. 1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. Former Pt. x. sig. H4 Blacke Clay mixt with red Sand, which..is called of Husbandmen an hassell earth. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) i. vi. 20 He shall sow his Barley, either on Clay ground, hassell, or mixt Earth. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 341 The manner of tillage that is also given light or hasel mould. 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 xxxix. 118 The soil consists of black and white poor hungry sand; some tolerable sand, and some of what we call hazel mould, and some little clay. 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 1 165 A field of good hazle loam. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 26 On all soils, except those of a deep hazel mould or sandy loam. 1967 E. Kerridge Agric. Revol. (2006) ii. 136 In drained salt-marshes, a deep, rich, hazel loam stood on beds of sea-sand, silt or clay. 2. Originally and chiefly English regional (northern). Any of several varieties of fine to medium grained sandstone found in the north of England, typically harder than freestone and occurring between layers of limestone. Frequently with distinguishing word or phrase, as Slaty hazel, Quarry hazle, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > freestone or building stone Caen-stone1421 french peirec1620 Portland stone1633 grison stone1653 hazle1794 roach1911 1794 W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumberland I. 48 Hazell, Saxum cos, whitish freestone, lamellar; nothing above but Moss, &c. 1816 Trans. Geol. Soc. 3 63 Hard ferruginous fine grained sandstones called hazles by the miners. 1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. Gloss. Hazle, a hard, often cherty, gritstone. 1957 Proc. Geologists' Assoc. 68 240 He could find no trace of either it or the underlying Quarry Hazle in the Bowes region. 2007 S. M. Clarke Geol. of NY74SE, Nenthead, Cumbria (Brit. Geol. Surv. 2007) iii. 9 Small exposures of the lowermost beds overlying the uppermost beds of the Slaty Hazle..can be seen in the south-facing banks of Ash Gill. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1587 |
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