单词 | rock-built |
释义 | rock-builtadj. Made of or built on rock. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [adjective] wandedc1593 brick-built1596 rock-built1596 mud-walled1607 sedgy1624 sodden1639 nogged1688 frame1760 logged1784 stucco1786 weatherboarded1794 piled1795 thick-walled1820 clapboarded1835 board-built1837 pebble-dashed1839 puncheoned1843 timber-framed1843 betimbered1847 pile-built1851 massy1855 bamboo-walled1858 portable1860 half-timber1874 stone-faced1874 Red River frame1879 ashlared1881 granolithic1881 brick-end1883 converted1888 steel frame1898 board-and-bat1902 traviated1902 steel-framed1906 prefabricated1921 prefab1937 multiwall1940 pre-engineered1955 curtain-walled1959 pre-fabbed1959 timber-frame1967 system-built1968 flat-pack1982 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [adjective] > made of stone stonena900 stonyc1384 stoneda1400 stone1420 rock-built1596 stonern1753 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. O 4v This rocke-built Castell, ouer-looks the Lands. 1615 G. Sandys tr. Horace Satires in Relation of Iourney iv. 306 Rock-built Anxur raisede on hie. 1698 J. Hopkins Triumphs of Peace xxv. 39 If their Rock-built Capitol now stood, How would it shake the nodding Load. 1720 A. Hill Gideon ii. 62 From Rock-built Selah, a secure Defence For weak-found Av'rice, and a Wealth immense. 1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Prometheus Chain'd in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 28 Arabia's martial race..Thro' all their rock-built cities moan. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV clxxxi. 93 The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities. 1843 J. C. Frémont Rep. 11 July in D. Jackson & M. L. Spence Exped. J. C. Frémont (1970) I. 443 On the summit of the ridge..were several rock-built forts. 1896 H. James Let. 25 July (1984) IV. i. 32 My little rock-built terrace. 1935 Amer. Midland Naturalist 16 281 Several of these toads were noted trilling at night about a rock-built fountain at Frogtown Gap. 2007 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 30 Jan. 8 Work on the new rock-built sea defence wall has been successfully completed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1596 |
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