单词 | projectile point |
释义 | > as lemmasprojectile point projectile point n. †(a) a point of departure, a starting point (obsolete rare); (b) Archaeology a piece of pointed stone (or occasionally bone or metal) used as a spearhead or arrowhead. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > prehistoric arrow-head elf-arrow1590 arrowhead?1661 fairy dart1782 fairy stone1791 flint-head1796 projectile point1847 leaf arrowhead1878 fairy arrow1903 1847 Knickerbocker 29 541 From the projectile point of man's transitory career to the mouldering return of his constituent elements beneath the silent sod. 1891 Amer. Anthropologist 4 51 Obsidian and other easily flaked stones were broken into masses..for knives and projectile points. 1998 New Scientist (Nexis) 17 Oct. 2424 A stone projectile point was found embedded between the ribs of a bison that had become extinct at the end of the last ice age. < as lemmas |
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