| 单词 | pendle stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspendle stone Any of various kinds or beds of stone occurring in quarries. Also in: pendle rock, pendle stone. Sc. National Dict. (1968) records the word as still in use in Kirkcudbrightshire in 1965. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > stratum or bed > bed of stone or sand pendle1706 picking-bed1749 sand1849 1706 Ld. Fitzwilliam Let. 11 Apr. in Ld. Fitzwilliam & F. Guybon Corr. (1990) 199 He thinks pendell stone may be the best to turne the arch with. 1706 J. Catlin Let. 8 May in Corr. Guybon 203 The masons liketh the pendalls very well for endureing the watter but they take more lime being thiner then free stone and will be rougher work. a1808 in T. Batchelor Gen. View Agric. Bedford iv. 8 Under which is a small stone, short, thick, and hard, called the pendle rock. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 103 Pendle-stone, a name given by quarry-men to the upper course in a stone-pit, whether of the upper or lower Oolite or Fuller's earth. 1890 Brechin Advertiser 29 Apr. An' me wis never ony farer nir the pentil steen o' the Redhead a' my days. 1900 Stone Trade Jrnl. Aug. The upper eight or ten feet of loose stuff [are] cleared away, thus ‘ridding’ the ground for the ‘pendal’, as the slates are called. < as lemmas |
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