| 单词 | stone of iron |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstone of iron g. A rounded stone or pebble formerly used as a missile in war, being thrown with the hand, discharged from a sling, or shot from a firearm (cf. gunstone n.); †stone of iron, a cannon-ball (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > stone as missile stonec1275 ashlar1370 brickbat1563 beggars' bolts1608 brick-brack1649 rock1711 Irish confetti1908 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or ball > cannonball stone of iron1511 bullet1557 bombard1575 round shot1576 cannonball1606 pill1618 shot1622 bumbass1663 round1707 thunder-stone1822 bolt1871 nigger baby1872 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 315 Mid stocken & mid stanen [c1300 Otho stone] stal-fiht heo makeden. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 3030 Grete stones wyþ slynges [they] caste. c1450 Brut 434 A traitour..shotte a Gonne, and the stone smot this good Erle of Salusbury. 1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. vv An other pece..shoteth a stone of Irron of .ij. fote depe. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxiij The Frenchemen shot out ordinaunce, quarelles and stones. 1573–5 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. (1907) I. 81 The harquebush doth spit his spight, with prety persing stones. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iii. 47 The Greekes cease not to martch, their stones & darts at random flye. 1705 London Gaz. No. 4097/1 They..ply the Enemy..with Bombs and Stones, from 6 Mortars. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 288 Each of those they had loaded with..Flint Stones and Shot. 1867 A. L. Gordon Sea Spray 142 Like a bird on the wing, or a stone from a sling. < as lemmas |
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