| 单词 | shin-cracker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshin-cracker shin-cracker n. Australian (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [noun] > disorders of leg white leg1801 snow-shoe evil1809 sparganosis1822 milk leg1830 phlegmasia alba dolens1830 scissor leg1850 scelalgia1853 tennis-knee1901 intermittent claudication1909 knee1921 shin-cracker1928 shin-splint1930 panpygoptosis1938 shelter leg1940 phlegmasia cerulea dolens1950 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] > subsoil > other subsoils stone-brash1677 shin-cracker1928 1928 Wentworth Mag. (Sydney) June 33 ‘Shin-crakers’, that is, blows on the shin owing to the rock suddenly breaking off. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 99 Shin~cracker, a subsoil of close-grained, brittle sandstone where the potch or silica runs. 1969 E. Waller And there's Opal out There 20 Ailments common to the Lightning Ridge, such as shincracker shin. 1971 J. S. Gunn Opal Terminol. 42 Shin cracker. Also shincracker, common name for the fine-grained Coocoran claystone which on exposure at the surface becomes a hard, brittle, siliceous rock that usually has to be dug through to get to the opal ground. Its name is appropriate because, when worked with a sinking pick or jack hammer, pieces shatter or fly off to strike the digger's shins, hence the injury called ‘shin-cracker shin’. < as lemmas |
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