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单词 short-faced
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short-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.
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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.
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