单词 | pipestone |
释义 | pipestonen.ΚΠ 1708 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 79 The following figur'd Fossils... Siphunculus, The Syringe, or Greater Pipe-stone. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Syringoides, lapis, the pipe-stone, in natural history, the name of a very beautiful fossile substance. 2. North American. An argillaceous stone suitable for making tobacco pipes; spec. an indurated red clay found esp. in the region of the upper Missouri, used by North American Indians for this purpose. Cf. catlinite n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > suitable for pipes tobacco-pipe clay1667 tobacco clay1676 pipestone1804 pipeclay1806 catlinite1858 terra alba1871 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > clay > [noun] > for tobacco pipes tobacco-pipe clay1667 tobacco clay1676 pipeclay1732 pipestone1804 terra alba1871 1804 W. Clark Jrnl. 21 Aug. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1986) 497 Below the falls on the right a Creek com[e]s in on which the red pipe Stone is percured. 1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada ii. 24 The Portage du Grand Calumet,..which name is derived from the pièrre à calumet, or pipe-stone, which here interrupts the river, occasioning a fall of water. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. xxix. 234 The bowls..are generally made of the red steatite, or ‘pipe-stone’. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha i. 11 On the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry. 1855 Trans. Royal Soc. Canada 3 291 His materials were the..black pipestone of Lake Huron; the..white pipestone procured on St. Joseph Island, and the..red pipestone of Coteau des Prairies. 1869 Amer. Naturalist 2 648 At Sioux Falls..a layer of Pipestone occurs intercalated with the quartzite. 1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) viii. 156 Pipestone (catlinite) is a hard red shale used by the Dakota Indians for making pipes. 1961 Amer. Heritage Bk. Indians 143/2 This people..traded for raw materials (pipestone, seashells, metals) all over eastern North America. 1992 Native Peoples Winter 20/2 (caption) Todd Tellinghuisen and Chuck Derby quarry the stone in the nation's only pipestone quarry. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > tuyere > parts connected with pipestone1839 tuyere box1861 tuyere-house1861 tuyere-plate1881 tuyere coil1884 tuyere arch1889 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 756 The posterior ledge of the sole..supports another piece of cast iron..called pipe-stone, scooped out at its under part..for the passage of the tuyère. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1708 |
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