单词 | bone pot |
释义 | > as lemmasbone pot bone pot n. (a) a pottery vessel used to bury or store the remains of the dead; †(b) a pot used in making animal charcoal from bones (obsolete rare). ΚΠ 1865 Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. 21 160 The ‘bone-pots’ vary from nine inches and a half to eleven inches and a half in height, and average about seven inches in breadth. 1889 Cent. Dict. Bone-pot, a cast-iron pot in which bones are carbonized: used in the manufacture of animal charcoal. 1971 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. No. 1. 102/2 Baker seems to have failed to spot the significance of the ‘gap’ which exists between the upper limit of bone-pot worship and the lower limit of tomb worship. 1991 J. L. Watson in K. Lieberthal et al. Perspectives Mod. China iv. xv. 372 On numerous occasions I have witnessed northern cadres recoil in absolute horror when the purpose of Cantonese bone pots is explained to them. < as lemmas |
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