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单词 kankar
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kankarn.

Brit. /ˈkaŋkə/, /ˈkʌŋkə/, U.S. /ˈkɑŋkər/, /ˈkəŋkər/, Indian English /ˈkəŋkəɽ/
Forms: 1700s konker, concha, 1800s conca, concher, conker, kankur, kankar, kunkar, kunker, kunkur.
Etymology: Hindi kankar = Prakrit kakkaram, Sanskrit karkaram. N.E.D. (1901) enters this under the headword kunkur and gives the pronunciation as (kɒ·ŋkɒ̆ɹ) /ˈkʌŋkə(r)/.
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.
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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.
attributive.1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) IV. xxi. 236 The site of his habitation was on a conca rock.18.. M. M. Sherwood in Life xxiii. 381 Our long, long voyage terminated under a high conker bank.1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 169 There he sat, on the kunker heap.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online September 2022).
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