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单词 slickstone
释义

slickstone

English

Etymology

A variant of sleekstone; equivalent to slick + stone.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈslɪkˌstəʊn/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈslɪkˌstoʊn/

Noun

slickstone (plural slickstones)

  1. Synonym of sleekstone
    • 1729, Eliza Smith, The Compleat Houſewife: or, Accompliſh'd Gentlewoman's Companion, third edition, London: J. Pemberton, page 286:
      Take a Sheet of Lead, and have a piece of Lead made like a Slickſtone; and then between them two grind white Lead and Sallet-Oil till 'tis very fine []
    • 1881, Charles Conrad Abbott, Primitive Industry: Or, Illustrations of the Handiwork, in Stone, Bone and Clay [] , Salem, Mass.: George A. Bates, page 144:
      Fig. 133 represents a white marble slickstone or smoothing implement of altogether different pattern from any previously described []
    • 2020 January 31, Penelope Walton Rogers, “Textile networks in Viking-age towns of Britain and Ireland”, in Stephen P. Ashby; Søren Sindbæk, editors, Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns, →ISBN, page 101:
      Rounded stone and glass objects with fine radiating scratches on one surface represent the slickstones that were used in garment-making and laundry, to smooth the cloth and to press seams and pleats.
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