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单词 stonerock
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stonerockn.

Forms:

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.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: stone n., rock n.1, roche n.1
Etymology: < stone n. + rock n.1 In β. forms with replacement of the second element by roche n.1 Compare Middle Dutch steenroke, steenrootse large projecting rock, crag, cliff (Dutch steenrots), Middle Low German stēnroke, stēnrotse, stēnrutse, rock, rock face, rock cave, Middle High German steinrosche, steinrotsche, steinrusche, steinrutsche cliff, steep rocky ground.Also attested in several place names in south-eastern England (and surnames derived from them), as Stanrok, Surrey (1241 in the name of Henry de Stanrok; now Stonyrock), Stonrocke, Surrey (1265 in the name of Rocius de Stonrocke; now Starrock Green), Stonrok, Sussex (1296 in the name of John Stonrok; now (probably) The Rocks, near Buxted), Stonrokk, Kent (1327; now lost), Stonerock, Sussex (1574; now Stonerock Gill), Stonrocks, Sussex (1627; now Stone Rocks, near East Grinstead).
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.
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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).
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