tombstonen.

Brit.

/ˈtuːmstəʊn/, U.S.

/ˈtumˌstoʊn/

Forms: see tomb n. and stone n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: tomb n., stone n.

Etymology: < tomb n. + stone n.

†a. A stone coffin or sarcophagus. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > stone covering grave

stone1303

gravestone1387

through-stonea1400

througha1425

burial-stone?a1500

trough1501

ledgerc1510

tombstone?1520

lair-stone1538

humeta1647

plank1660

ledger-stone1851

flatstone1855

grave-cover1875

hogback1889

?1520 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Diocese Lincoln, 1517–1531 (1940) I. 134 Idem rector idem rector accepit duos lapides anglice Tumbe stonys.

1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. iv. xi. f. 125 The very same tombestone was found to be of a fyt length for the quantitie of the bodie.

b. A stone or monument placed as a marker or memorial at a person's grave; a gravestone; esp. a large, flat stone placed horizontally over a grave or sarcophagus, typically inscribed with the name, dates, etc., of the dead person; a stone monument marking the head of the grave; a headstone. Also occasionally: a marker or memorial of this kind made of wood or another material.The precise sense in quot. 1540 is unclear; it may illustrate sense 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > monument > [noun] > tombstone

gravestone1387

marble?a1400

tombstone1540

headstone1676

footstone1701

1540 in Wiltshire Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Mag. (1867) 10 76 One Tombe stone of the Lesser sworte.

a1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. (1675) 28 Suppose he should dig up a large stone of the shape of an ancient tomb-stone.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 26. ¶5 When I meet with the Grief of Parents upon a Tomb-stone, my Heart melts with Compassion.

1759 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 4/1 As some workmen were removing the soil..they discovered a tomb-stone, of an uncommon size, being near 15 inches thick.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §98 A well shaped Tomb-stone of Granite.

1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 85 There was a wooden tombstone in the church yard that used to tell all about him.

1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 160 That species of erect tombstone which some one has..designated as spectral.

1894 Harper's Mag. May 968/2 I've..put up a fine Bible-texted tombstone for her.

1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xiv. 292 Peter hung his hat on the extended hand of a stout eighteenth-century cherub..on an adjacent tombstone.

1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Sept. 9/1 The hand-carved wooden tombstones have been weathered smooth.

2013 J. Verday Beautiful & Damned xxxvii. 242 Joe looked down and saw he was standing on top of a cracked tombstone buried in the ground.

2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Something likened to a tombstone, esp. in serving as a memorial, or in marking the end of a person's life or career, an undertaking, a period of time, etc.

ΚΠ

1608 T. Walkington Salomons Sweete Harpe 9 Hauing the heauy tombe-stone of desperation pressing downe their soules almost to the nethermost hell.

1658 (title) Mistris Shawes Tomb-stone,..Beeing a Narrative of Remarkable Passages in the Holy Life and Happy Death of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw, of Brampton.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. x. 395 I swear to that condition, answered Don Quixote: and, for the greater security, will put a tombstone over whatever you shall communicate.

1819 J. Montgomery Greenland v. 186 One frozen plain, The mighty tombstone of the buried main.

1873 A. Bierce Fiend's Delight 73 A memory studded thick with the tombstones of happy hours murdered by your friend's friend.

1902 Daily Chron. 24 May 3/1 It puts tombstones to the reputations of many good officers, and buries the blunders of others under cairns of apologetic explanations.

1967 S. E. Hyman in W. Troy Sel. Ess. Introd. 3 In retrospect, that book turns out to be the tombstone erected over the grave of a great age of literary criticism.

2005 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 14 Feb. 1 Home Land..nearly became the tombstone of Mr. Lipsyte's career two years ago when no publisher in the city would buy it at any price.

3. slang. A tooth; (sometimes) spec. an irregular or projecting one.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > tooth or teeth > [noun]

teetha900

munpinsc1475

gams1508

peg1598

tusk1632

masticator1681

headrail1767

ivory1783

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toothy-peg1840

fang1841

cruncher1859

chomper1884

teg1886

Hampstead Heath1887

pearly1914

gnasher1919

tat1919

pearly whites1935

chopper1937

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > projecting

tushc725

tuska900

tusclec1000

butter tootha1566

gag-tooth1585

gang-tooth1603

gubber-tush1621

gobber tooth1628

buck-tooth1753

tombstone1809

rabbit tooth1863

1809 G. Andrewes Dict. Slang & Cant Langs. Tomb-stones, teeth.

1832 P. Egan Bk. Sports 160 What tho' each tier of tombstones they allow To totter on their graves (gums) from rattling blow.

1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VII. ii. 150/2 Tombstone, a projecting tooth, a snaggle-tooth.

1908 H. C. Fisher in San Francisco Examiner 10 Sept. 13 I can't stand this tooth ache any longer... I wonder if it hurts much when they pull a tombstone.

2007 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 6 Jan. a2 24 With my knees on his supine shoulders and my fists trying to knock the tombstones out of his mouth.

†4. British slang. A pawn ticket. Obsolete.With humorous allusion to a pawn ticket being issued ‘in memory of’ a pawned object; cf. quot. 1864.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > one with whom pawn deposited > pawnbroker > ticket issued by

pawn ticket1683

tombstone1864

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Tombstone, a pawnticket—‘In memory of’, &c., a well-known Slang expression with those Londoners who are in the habit of following ‘My Uncle’.

1883 J. Greenwood Odd People 168 The..bag in which the ‘tombstones’ or pawn-tickets were deposited.

1899 Sporting Times 20 May 2/2 In the ‘tombstone racket’, the jerrigojay who purchases the ‘sacrificed’ pawn-ticket usually finds that..the pledge is not worth 25 per cent.

5. Finance. An advertisement listing the underwriters or firms associated with a new issue of shares, bonds, warrants, etc.Probably with allusion to the format of this type of advertisement, which contained a long list of underwriters or associated firms.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > advertising in the press > [noun] > types of press advertisement

lost1762

lost(s) and founds1777

small advertisement1811

blind advertisement1842

want advertisementa1871

reading notice1872

small ad1875

want ad1892

classified1909

smalls1919

tombstone1948

tele ad1967

matrimonials1989

1948 Columbia Law Rev. 48 330 An investor..will be able to tell from an expanded tombstone whether the new issue is of a type in which he has no interest.

1968 Times 27 Feb. 22/3 ‘Tombstones’..are getting bigger. I am referring, of course, to the new issue advertisements.

1989 Financial Post (Canada) (Nexis) 18 Sept. iv. 36 They [sc. underwriters] get their kicks out of seeing their names on the tombstones.

2011 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 18 Feb. (Business section) 6 The tombstones listing the bookrunners of Sawiris's €12 billion deal tell their own story that Atlantic banking isn't dead yet.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, appositive, instrumental, and objective.

a. In sense 1, as tombstone carving, tombstone monument, tombstone-shaded, etc.

ΚΠ

1751 B. Lynde Diary 16 Oct. in B. Lynde & B. Lynde Diaries (1880) 176 Yesterday Cox and Stacey ½ day abo. Tombstone monument.

1791 F. Burney Let. 1 Aug. in Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 12 We determined..to prowl to the Church Yard, & read the Tombstone inscriptions.

1826 T. Hood Valentine ii, in Whims & Oddities 8 Just stopp'd before The tombstone steps that lead us to death's door.

1843 G. M. Musgrave Parson, Pen, & Pencil I. viii. 275 Shrine manufacturers, tombstone-cutters, sculptors, and masons, garland-weavers and relic-vendors.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. viii. 206 Again they lay as tombstone effigies, that have committed the passage of affairs to another procession of the Ages.

1905 Daily Chron. 24 Apr. 4/5 An elderly man was sitting dejectedly on the tombstone-shaded bench.

1958 Connecticut Hist. Soc. Apr. 33 Of all the native crafts it is safe to say that this one of tombstone carving developed and evolved more independently of European culture than any other.

2014 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 19 Oct. (T Style Mag.) 58/1 Revealing to the world sleeves of tattooed fleurs du mal that, when zoomed, resemble tombstone art.

b. In sense 5, as tombstone advertisement, tombstone format, etc.

ΚΠ

1941 N.Y. Times 10 Aug. iii. 1/7 The present law does not allow securities to be offered for sale before registration or to be offered in writing save in a ‘tombstone’ advertisement.

1973 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. 41/6 In keeping with the ‘tombstone’ format prescribed for investment company advertising, the commission said that ‘performance figures specifically could not be included’.

1981 U.S. Banker Dec. 56/1 The old tombstone ad, promoting a service and basing the appeal largely on price,..is long gone, according to advertising men.

1987 N.Y. Times 5 Oct. d1 More often than not they lead the deals, garnering the top tombstone spots.

1996 S. Laubach Whole Kitt & Caboodle v. 51 The wall was hung from floor to ceiling with framed tombstone notices of IPOs done by Caboodle & Company.

C2.

tombstone opening n. Australian (in traditional Torres Strait Islander culture) a ceremony to mark the unveiling of a tombstone, typically held a year or more after the burial of a person and signalling an end to the period of official mourning.

ΚΠ

1961 Quadrant Autumn 78 Not a Church festival, but what we call a Tombstone Opening.

1988 J. Jupp Austral. People 147 Scores and even hundreds come together to celebrate what is called a tombstone opening.

2013 @janefeebles 2 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Saturday we're out all day and night at a tombstone opening.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tombstone
释义	tombstonen. Brit. /ˈtuːmstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈtumˌstoʊn/ Forms: see tomb n. and stone n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: tomb n., stone n. Etymology: < tomb n. + stone n. 1. †a. A stone coffin or sarcophagus. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > stone covering grave stone1303 gravestone1387 through-stonea1400 througha1425 burial-stone?a1500 trough1501 ledgerc1510 tombstone?1520 lair-stone1538 humeta1647 plank1660 ledger-stone1851 flatstone1855 grave-cover1875 hogback1889 ?1520 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Diocese Lincoln, 1517–1531 (1940) I. 134 Idem rector idem rector accepit duos lapides anglice Tumbe stonys. 1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. iv. xi. f. 125 The very same tombestone was found to be of a fyt length for the quantitie of the bodie. b. A stone or monument placed as a marker or memorial at a person's grave; a gravestone; esp. a large, flat stone placed horizontally over a grave or sarcophagus, typically inscribed with the name, dates, etc., of the dead person; a stone monument marking the head of the grave; a headstone. Also occasionally: a marker or memorial of this kind made of wood or another material.The precise sense in quot. 1540 is unclear; it may illustrate sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > monument > [noun] > tombstone gravestone1387 marble?a1400 tombstone1540 headstone1676 footstone1701 1540 in Wiltshire Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Mag. (1867) 10 76 One Tombe stone of the Lesser sworte. a1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. (1675) 28 Suppose he should dig up a large stone of the shape of an ancient tomb-stone. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 26. ¶5 When I meet with the Grief of Parents upon a Tomb-stone, my Heart melts with Compassion. 1759 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 4/1 As some workmen were removing the soil..they discovered a tomb-stone, of an uncommon size, being near 15 inches thick. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §98 A well shaped Tomb-stone of Granite. 1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 85 There was a wooden tombstone in the church yard that used to tell all about him. 1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 160 That species of erect tombstone which some one has..designated as spectral. 1894 Harper's Mag. May 968/2 I've..put up a fine Bible-texted tombstone for her. 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xiv. 292 Peter hung his hat on the extended hand of a stout eighteenth-century cherub..on an adjacent tombstone. 1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Sept. 9/1 The hand-carved wooden tombstones have been weathered smooth. 2013 J. Verday Beautiful & Damned xxxvii. 242 Joe looked down and saw he was standing on top of a cracked tombstone buried in the ground. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Something likened to a tombstone, esp. in serving as a memorial, or in marking the end of a person's life or career, an undertaking, a period of time, etc. ΚΠ 1608 T. Walkington Salomons Sweete Harpe 9 Hauing the heauy tombe-stone of desperation pressing downe their soules almost to the nethermost hell. 1658 (title) Mistris Shawes Tomb-stone,..Beeing a Narrative of Remarkable Passages in the Holy Life and Happy Death of Mrs. Dorothy Shaw, of Brampton. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. x. 395 I swear to that condition, answered Don Quixote: and, for the greater security, will put a tombstone over whatever you shall communicate. 1819 J. Montgomery Greenland v. 186 One frozen plain, The mighty tombstone of the buried main. 1873 A. Bierce Fiend's Delight 73 A memory studded thick with the tombstones of happy hours murdered by your friend's friend. 1902 Daily Chron. 24 May 3/1 It puts tombstones to the reputations of many good officers, and buries the blunders of others under cairns of apologetic explanations. 1967 S. E. Hyman in W. Troy Sel. Ess. Introd. 3 In retrospect, that book turns out to be the tombstone erected over the grave of a great age of literary criticism. 2005 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 14 Feb. 1 Home Land..nearly became the tombstone of Mr. Lipsyte's career two years ago when no publisher in the city would buy it at any price. 3. slang. A tooth; (sometimes) spec. an irregular or projecting one. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > tooth or teeth > [noun] teetha900 munpinsc1475 gams1508 peg1598 tusk1632 masticator1681 headrail1767 ivory1783 tombstone1809 dominos1828 dental1837 toothy-peg1840 fang1841 cruncher1859 chomper1884 teg1886 Hampstead Heath1887 pearly1914 gnasher1919 tat1919 pearly whites1935 chopper1937 the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > projecting tushc725 tuska900 tusclec1000 butter tootha1566 gag-tooth1585 gang-tooth1603 gubber-tush1621 gobber tooth1628 buck-tooth1753 tombstone1809 rabbit tooth1863 1809 G. Andrewes Dict. Slang & Cant Langs. Tomb-stones, teeth. 1832 P. Egan Bk. Sports 160 What tho' each tier of tombstones they allow To totter on their graves (gums) from rattling blow. 1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VII. ii. 150/2 Tombstone, a projecting tooth, a snaggle-tooth. 1908 H. C. Fisher in San Francisco Examiner 10 Sept. 13 I can't stand this tooth ache any longer... I wonder if it hurts much when they pull a tombstone. 2007 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 6 Jan. a2 24 With my knees on his supine shoulders and my fists trying to knock the tombstones out of his mouth. †4. British slang. A pawn ticket. Obsolete.With humorous allusion to a pawn ticket being issued ‘in memory of’ a pawned object; cf. quot. 1864. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > one with whom pawn deposited > pawnbroker > ticket issued by pawn ticket1683 tombstone1864 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Tombstone, a pawnticket—‘In memory of’, &c., a well-known Slang expression with those Londoners who are in the habit of following ‘My Uncle’. 1883 J. Greenwood Odd People 168 The..bag in which the ‘tombstones’ or pawn-tickets were deposited. 1899 Sporting Times 20 May 2/2 In the ‘tombstone racket’, the jerrigojay who purchases the ‘sacrificed’ pawn-ticket usually finds that..the pledge is not worth 25 per cent. 5. Finance. An advertisement listing the underwriters or firms associated with a new issue of shares, bonds, warrants, etc.Probably with allusion to the format of this type of advertisement, which contained a long list of underwriters or associated firms. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > advertising in the press > [noun] > types of press advertisement lost1762 lost(s) and founds1777 small advertisement1811 blind advertisement1842 want advertisementa1871 reading notice1872 small ad1875 want ad1892 classified1909 smalls1919 tombstone1948 tele ad1967 matrimonials1989 1948 Columbia Law Rev. 48 330 An investor..will be able to tell from an expanded tombstone whether the new issue is of a type in which he has no interest. 1968 Times 27 Feb. 22/3 ‘Tombstones’..are getting bigger. I am referring, of course, to the new issue advertisements. 1989 Financial Post (Canada) (Nexis) 18 Sept. iv. 36 They [sc. underwriters] get their kicks out of seeing their names on the tombstones. 2011 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 18 Feb. (Business section) 6 The tombstones listing the bookrunners of Sawiris's €12 billion deal tell their own story that Atlantic banking isn't dead yet. Compounds C1. General attributive, appositive, instrumental, and objective. a. In sense 1, as tombstone carving, tombstone monument, tombstone-shaded, etc. ΚΠ 1751 B. Lynde Diary 16 Oct. in B. Lynde & B. Lynde Diaries (1880) 176 Yesterday Cox and Stacey ½ day abo. Tombstone monument. 1791 F. Burney Let. 1 Aug. in Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 12 We determined..to prowl to the Church Yard, & read the Tombstone inscriptions. 1826 T. Hood Valentine ii, in Whims & Oddities 8 Just stopp'd before The tombstone steps that lead us to death's door. 1843 G. M. Musgrave Parson, Pen, & Pencil I. viii. 275 Shrine manufacturers, tombstone-cutters, sculptors, and masons, garland-weavers and relic-vendors. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. viii. 206 Again they lay as tombstone effigies, that have committed the passage of affairs to another procession of the Ages. 1905 Daily Chron. 24 Apr. 4/5 An elderly man was sitting dejectedly on the tombstone-shaded bench. 1958 Connecticut Hist. Soc. Apr. 33 Of all the native crafts it is safe to say that this one of tombstone carving developed and evolved more independently of European culture than any other. 2014 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 19 Oct. (T Style Mag.) 58/1 Revealing to the world sleeves of tattooed fleurs du mal that, when zoomed, resemble tombstone art. b. In sense 5, as tombstone advertisement, tombstone format, etc. ΚΠ 1941 N.Y. Times 10 Aug. iii. 1/7 The present law does not allow securities to be offered for sale before registration or to be offered in writing save in a ‘tombstone’ advertisement. 1973 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. 41/6 In keeping with the ‘tombstone’ format prescribed for investment company advertising, the commission said that ‘performance figures specifically could not be included’. 1981 U.S. Banker Dec. 56/1 The old tombstone ad, promoting a service and basing the appeal largely on price,..is long gone, according to advertising men. 1987 N.Y. Times 5 Oct. d1 More often than not they lead the deals, garnering the top tombstone spots. 1996 S. Laubach Whole Kitt & Caboodle v. 51 The wall was hung from floor to ceiling with framed tombstone notices of IPOs done by Caboodle & Company. C2. tombstone opening n. Australian (in traditional Torres Strait Islander culture) a ceremony to mark the unveiling of a tombstone, typically held a year or more after the burial of a person and signalling an end to the period of official mourning. ΚΠ 1961 Quadrant Autumn 78 Not a Church festival, but what we call a Tombstone Opening. 1988 J. Jupp Austral. People 147 Scores and even hundreds come together to celebrate what is called a tombstone opening. 2013 @janefeebles 2 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Saturday we're out all day and night at a tombstone opening. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tombstonev. Brit. /ˈtuːmstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈtumˌstoʊn/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: tombstone n. Etymology: < tombstone n. Compare slightly earlier tombstoning n. 1. intransitive. Surfing. Of a surfboard: to bob vertically nose-up halfway out of the water, indicating the surfer (attached by the leash) is in serious difficulties below. Also with out. ΚΠ 1998 Surfer Sept. 62/3 He said Forse's board tombstoned on the first hit, then was pulled totally under the second time. 2001 J. Kita Another Shot x. 110 Since the surfboard is attached to your ankle via a leash, it'll stick straight up or tombstone out of the water above you. 2014 Monterey (Calif.) County Herald (Nexis) 31 Oct. His board was tombstoning sticking straight up in the water meaning he was unconscious, dead weight. 2. intransitive. British. To jump into the sea from a cliff or other high point, as a participant in tombstoning (tombstoning n. 3). ΚΠ 2000 Times 9 June 11/2 The boy..was ‘tombstoning’, a craze which sees thrill-seekers jump into the sea from cliffs. But he hit rocks beneath the surface. 2006 Independent 1 July 7/2 Harry Dixon..suffered two broken legs when he took time off from Cornwall's surfing championships to tombstone off 16-metre high cliffs. 2016 Argus (Nexis) 30 Jan. The most daring rescues include the Brighton crew helping two men who tombstoned into the sea off Palace Pier in June. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1520v.1998
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tombstonen.

Compounds

tombstonev.