单词 | toph stone |
释义 | > as lemmastoph stone 1. Usually toph stone: Travertin, or other soft stone: = tophus n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > types of limestone for building Purbeck stone1410 Tiburtine stonec1440 toph stonea1552 travertine1669 Purbeck1683 Purbeck marblea1697 Portland1711 tiber-stone1726 tophus-stone1830 Hopton wood1888 roach1911 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > travertine toph stonea1552 Tivertine1663 travertine1669 tophus-stone1830 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) VI. 55 A Quarre of Tophe Stone by Driselege, wherof much of the Castelle was buildid. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. xv. ii. 61 For Tophe stone, not a few allow of the quarrie that is at Drisley, diuerse mislike not of the veine of hard stone that is at Oxford, and Burford. 1811 J. Milner Eccl. Archit. Eng. 95 Arched with hard stone for the ribs and light toph stone for the interstices. < as lemmas |
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