| 单词 | shaggy metal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshaggy metal g. Having a rough surface. shaggy metal: in the Cheshire salt mines, ‘porous clay in the side of the shaft, which admits the ingress of fresh water’ ( Cheshire Gloss. 1886). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough unsmeetheOE sharpc893 rowOE reofOE roughOE unplaina1393 harsha1400 scrofc1400 stourc1400 ruggyc1405 asperous1547 harshy1582 shagged1589 horrid1590 unsmooth1598 gross1606 asperate1623 brute1627 scabbed1630 sleazy1644 rasping1656 scaber1657 asper1681 shaggy1693 gruff1697 grating1766 hackly1794 ruvid1837 scrubby1856 unkind1866 raspy1882 ruckly1923 sandpapery1957 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > porous waterbed1791 shaggy metal1811 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. iv. iii. 83 Some by growing Soft first, as many Pears do,..others by growing Dry and Shaggy, as most Musc-Pears do; all which are different ways Conducing to Rotteness and Destruction. 1811 H. Holland in Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 50 Where this [porous] structure of the clay occurs it goes by the name of the shaggy metal. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby iv. 164 A mantle long and loose he wore, Shaggy with ice, and stained with gore. 1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria xiii. 332 Chocolate-coloured porphyres..highly shaggy and amygdaloidal. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (ed. 2) 402 Fruit globular, its husk very thick: bark of old trunk shaggy, exfoliating in strips or plates. < as lemmas |
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