单词 | kankar |
释义 | kankarn. East India. A coarse kind of limestone found in many parts of India, in large tabular strata, or interspersed throughout the surface soil, in nodules of various sizes; it is burned to lime, and also used for constructing roads, binding to a compact, hard, and even surface. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > others lias1404 stone marrow1681 stone marl1682 saint's head stone1763 Kentish rag1769 watericle1776 kankar1793 Cotham1816 mountain limestone1817 tosca1818 cornstone1819 burr1829 coral-limestone1831 scar-limestone1831 Wenlock limestone1834 bavin1839 curf1839 Solenhofen slate1841 Beer stone1871 miliolite limestone1872 Clipsham1877 reef limestone1884 Hopton wood1888 thermo-calcite1888 Kilkenny marble1930 micrite1959 1793 W. Hodges Trav. India 110 The river Jumna, the sides of which consist of what in India is called concha. 1810 T. Williamson E. India Vade-mecum II. 13 A weaker kind of lime is obtained by burning a substance called kunkur. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 195 A round mass of ‘concher’..which he rolled before him. 1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 102 Small calcareous nodules of weatherworn ‘kunker’. 1879 H. B. Medlicott & W. T. Blanford Man. Geol. India I. 397 In places the kankar forms compact beds of earthy limestone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online September 2022). < |
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