α. Old English stanrocc, early Middle English stanrok, early Middle English stonerokk, early Middle English stonrock, early Middle English stonrocke, 1500s–1600s stonerocke.
β. early Middle English stanroche, early Middle English stonroche.
单词 | stonerock |
释义 | † stonerockn.α. Old English stanrocc, early Middle English stanrok, early Middle English stonerokk, early Middle English stonrock, early Middle English stonrocke, 1500s–1600s stonerocke. β. early Middle English stanroche, early Middle English stonroche. Obsolete. A pointed or projecting rock, a peak, a crag; a detached mass of rock, a boulder or large stone. Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [noun] > a rock > boulder stonerockeOE rochec1300 rocka1413 calionc1459 outlier1610 boother1680 tumbler1789 boulder1815 lost stone1819 erratic blocka1828 erratic blocka1828 lost rock1831 gibber1834 tumbling stone1857 foundling-stone1892 eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 332 Obolisci, stanrocces. OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 278 Scopulorum : saxorum eminentium, stanrocca uel torra. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 45 Hie stikð niðer in to nielnesse mid here ðohtes, for us eft to warnin wið ðo stanroches of ðe harde hierte ðe næure ne wile nexin for none watere of wisdome. c1300 All Souls (Laud) l. 215 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 426 (MED) In a contreye þare a gret ston-roche stod, And Men wenden þat þare-onder were gret trosor [read tresor]. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies ii. 238/1 Along by the coasts aforesaid lie many Islands, as Moines, that is, the Isle of Moonks, Quiracao, Buenaire, Good Ayre, Rocques, or Roca, Stone Rockes. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies ii. 264/2 The shore on both sides being full of high stone rockes. 1617 H. Ainsworth Annot. Five Bks. Moses (1627) iv. 25 A stone-rocke is so called for the sharpenesse of it. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.eOE |
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