| 单词 | buff-hard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbuff-hard a. buff accoutrements, belt; buff-hide, buff-skin; †buff-hard adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > [adjective] > very iron-hardOE bone?a1300 adamantinea1382 stony?1523 adamant1535 steel-harda1560 buff-hard1589 steely1596 diamantine1605 steela1607 rocked1610 Brazil1635 adamantean1671 osseousa1682 iron1708 ferreous1774 rock-likea1793 cast iron1886 bone-hard1924 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather from ox, cow, or buffalo neat's leather?a1425 buff-leather1574 buff-hide1589 buff-skin1589 cowhide1728 robe1761 Grecian leather1852 crop1858 crop-leather1858 steerhide1921 1589 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 192 Good store of Buffe hides. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 200 His [sc. the rhinoceros'] more then buffe-hard-skinne. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 81 The Commodities of East-land, and thereabouts..Cables, Canuas, Buffe-hides. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Buff The Skin of this Animal [sc. the ‘Buffelo’] being dress'd in Oil..makes..Buff-skin. 1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol ii. 306 His Buff Doublet, larded o'er with Fat Of slaughter'd Brutes. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. iv. 133 Another cup furnished at bottom with a piece of buff-skin. 1813 Duke of Wellington Let. 28 Nov. in Dispatches (1838) XI. 334 Sets of buff accoutrements for the soldiers. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. vii. 16/2 The military classes in those old times, whose buff-belts, [and] complicated chains..have been bepainted in modern Romance. < as lemmas |
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