| 单词 | penny-stone |
| 释义 | ˈpenny-stone
[f. penny + stone.]
1. Sc. and north. A flat round stone used as a quoit; also, the game played with these.
1375[see b]. 1483Cath. Angl. 274/2 A Penystane, discus. 1519Priory of Hexham (Surtees) II. 157 Ludi inhonesti..viz. tuttes, et handball ac Pennyston. 1771Pennant Tour Scot. in 1769, 167 Antient sports of the Highlanders..Throwing the penny-stone, which answers to our coits. 1807J. Stagg Poems (Cumbld. Dial.) 12 Some play'd at pennice steans for brass. 1895‘Sarah Tytler’ Macdonald Lass xiv. 186 Do you mind yon game of penny-stanes?
b. attrib. in penny-stone cast, the distance to which such a stone is or can be thrown.
1375Barbour Bruce xvi. 383 The vay Wes nocht a penny⁓stane cast of breid. 1752D. Kennedy in Scots Mag. (1753) July 336/2 Being..about two pennystone-cast before the said Mungo. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped 52 That's but a penny stonecast from Rankeillor's house.
2. A kind of ironstone, occurring in nodules, found in the Coalbrookdale coalfield, in Shropshire.
1803J. Plymley Agric. Shropsh. 54 Penny-measure; a pale-blue clod, in which lies a large quantity of small balls of ironstone, called pennystone. 1868Parton Notes on Shropsh. Coal-field in Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., The Penny Stone is the most remarkable and productive iron-stone in Shropshire. It is composed of a series of nodules. |
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