单词 | bone handle |
释义 | > as lemmasbone handle c. With the sense ‘constructed or fashioned from bone’, as bone comb, bone handle, bone knife, bone needle, bone tool, etc. ΚΠ 1488 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 393 Item, a bane coffre, and in it a grete cors of gold. 1607 J. Cleland Hρω-παιδεια i. ix. 82 The Iews rubbe only their Palme trees without, with a woodden or bone knife, when they would haue aboundance of balme. 1620 Accompt Sept. in S. M. Kingsbury Rec. Virginia Company (1933) III. 386 5. paire of double boxcombes, & .6. bone combs. 1676 in C. Innes Bk. Thanes Cawdor (1859) 327 A sillwer seill with a bon heid. 1743 W. Stukeley Abury ix. 42 An iron knife with a bone handle. 1776 Bothwell in D. Herd Anc. & Mod. Sc. Songs (ed. 2) I. i. 161 Then she's gi'ed him a little bane-knife, And frae his sark he cut a share. 1829 R. C. Hoare Tumuli Wiltunenses 21 Of these bone tools sharpened at one end, I have several in my Museum. 1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. v. 150 These cavemen were very ingenious, and excellent workers in flint..their bone pins, etc. are beautifully polished. 1922 Guide Museum First Floor in F. W. Hodge Indian Notes & Monogr. (Mus. Amer. Indian, Heye Foundation) 238 Foreshafts of wood with points of stone, and others with blunt bone tips. 1970 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Antiquaries Ireland 100 71 A bronze ringed pin and a bone comb. 2011 Sci. Amer. Nov. 23/1 Warm, tailored hide garments stitched together with sinew and bone needles. < as lemmas |
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