单词 | anvil-headed |
释义 | > as lemmasanvil-headed anvil-headed adj. having a head or top shaped like an anvil.In quot. 1796 probably: stupid, ‘blockheaded’. ΚΠ 1796 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses I. viii. 352 These break-neck hazards..are incurred..purely to humour the delectable prejudices of an anvil-headed farrier. 1798 G. Vancouver Voy. Discov. N. Pacific Ocean I. ii. iii. 194 We passed within a few yards of about twenty whales of the anvil-headed or spermaceti kind. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lvii. 303 The anvil-headed whale. 1943 Life 13 Sept. 92 The maritime air has exploded upward into towering anvil-headed cumulonimbus clouds. 2003 J. Manuel Nat. Traveler along North Carolina's Coast 130 Boaters are immersed in a fairy land of anvil-headed cypress trees and drooping Spanish moss. < as lemmas |
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