单词 | short-faced |
释义 | > as lemmasshort-faced b. Of a thing: having a face or surface of a specified kind; spec. (of a golf club) having a particular type of playing surface, as long-faced, short-faced, etc.For more established compounds, as metal-, rock-faced, etc., see the first element. ΚΠ 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 375 Where huge and hilly lands Haue stone-fac'd scurrile bounds. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) ii. cxxxix. 23 For his rich Ring of smoothfac'd Diamond. 1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 402/1 The improved metallic wheel with wood-faced tyre. 1861 All Year Round 15 June 287/2 Marble-faced houses. 1893 H. G. Hutchinson Golfing 21 These short-faced clubs. 1909 P. A. Vaile Mod. Golf viii. 120 Don't choose a big-headed club, and avoid a long-faced one. 1931 C. E. Munroe & J. E. Tiffany Physical Testing Explosives 81 A carborundum-faced shoe..is made by facing a wooden lock with aloxite cloth and then slipping it into dovetailed grooves on the lower face of the shoe. 1992 Hist. Preserv. Mar.–Apr. 65/2 The imposing, granite-faced 1903 Piedmont Hotel..resisted the force of a wrecker's ball. < as lemmas |
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