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单词 lissen
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lissenn.

/ˈlɪs(ə)n/
Forms: Also 1600s lisne, 1600s–1800s lissom.
Etymology: Of obscure origin: compare list n.3, which has some affinity in meaning (compare sense 4 of that word).
dialect.
1. A cleft or seam dividing the strata of a rock.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > thin layer > [noun] > separating strata
seam1592
lissena1641
parting1708
stripe1799
slick1883
seamlet1891
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 175 A strange stone..wherein is noe chinke, cracke, chopp, or Lisne at all.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 192 In the Lisne of a Rock at Kingscote in Glocestershire, I found at least a Bushel of Petrified Cockles.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 58 We have another fine Earth..found frequently in the lissoms or seams of the Rocks.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Lissen, a cleft in a rock. Glouc.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Lissen, a cleft in a rock; the parting of stone in a quarry.
2. A layer or stratum; †a support for a beehive.
ΚΠ
1790 Trans. Soc. Arts 8 126 (Let. fr. Faringdon, Berks.) Two [hives]..that I was obliged to raise on lissoms nine inches high.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) ‘In burnin' lime we putten first a lissom o' coal, an' then a lissom o' lime-stwun’.
3. A strand of rope; ‘one of the rows of straw plait in a bonnet’ (Devon 1837 in Eng. Dial. Dict.).
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lissens, the ultimate strands of a rope.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Lissom, the strand of a rope; each lissom may be composed of several yarns.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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