单词 | logan-stone |
释义 | logan-stonen. A rocking-stone. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > rock formations > [noun] > rocking or perched rocking stone1638 shaking stonea1705 logan-stone1759 logging-stone1818 1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 4 This stone..was a Logan or Rocking-stone. 1808 R. Polwhele Cornish-Eng. Vocab. 45 Logan, shaking. A logan stone, a rocking moving stone. 1824 F. Hitchins & S. Drew Hist. Cornwall I. iv. §4. 148 In the parish of Sithney..stood a celebrated logging stone. 1826 N. T. Carrington Dartmoor 66 Near the edge Of the loud brawling stream a Logan stands Haply self-poised. 1831 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) II. 79 Like the Logan stones, which the finger of a child may move. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn (1900) xxxiv. 181/2 Strong as your famous lieutenant who capsized the logan stone. 1881 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) i. xv The big loggan-stone that had stood in front..was upset, and fallen into the gulley. 1881 Harper's Mag. Nov. 803 Logging-stones whose ponderous bulk sways at the touch of a woman's hand. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1759 |
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