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单词 pennant flag
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pennant flag
More fully pennant grit. Any of a series of grit and sandstone strata lying between the upper and lower coal measures in South Wales and the Bristol area; stone from these strata used for paving, millstones, etc. Also pennant flag, pennant rock, pennant stone, etc.
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1669–70 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 100 In the stable..some pennant with other Lumber.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 224 This bath was paved with pennant flag..a stone that divides into slates of about two inches thick.
1792 Gentleman's Mag. 62 i. 222 The stone of these two crosses is of a very hard and durable kind, usually called pennant, of a close gritty nature, and dug every where in the mountainous parts of Glamorgan.
1824 Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 256 The Pennant grit consists of thick stratified masses of very fissile sandstone... It is known by the name of Pennant stone.
1886 A. J. Jukes-Browne Student's Handbk. Hist. Geol. 186 The Pennant Grits. This series..forms the fine range of escarpments, which enclose the central table land of the county [sc. Glamorgan].
1912 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 202 270 Mushet identified the Third Division of the productive series in the Forest [of Dean] with the Pennant Rock of Bristol.
1960 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery (ed. 5) 219 The Coal Measures, which are clearly grouped into two coal-bearing series of shales and sandstones, separated by a thick group of massive sandstones, known as the Pennant Grit.
1982 Britannia 13 381 At this stage the precinct was partly refloored with pennant flags.
2003 G. Biddle Britain's Hist. Railway Buildings 587/2 The masonry comprises courses of small blocks of Pennant sandstone, with ashlar voussoirs.
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