单词 | louping-on stone |
释义 | > as lemmaslouping-on stone louping-on stone n. a mounting-block. ΚΠ 1728 in A. Laing Lindores Abbey (1876) xxvi. 400 A petition given in by George Grant..To ye baillies and Councill..for ye liberty of building a louping on ston at the south side of the house in Newburgh he possesses. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. vi. 113 He had..by the assistance of a ‘louping-on-stane’,..elevated his person to the back of..a broken-down blood-horse. View more context for this quotation 1902 C. G. Harper Holyhead Road I. 263 Mile~stones..resembling ‘louping on’ stones or ‘upping blocks’. < as lemmas |
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