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名詞

drystone (plural drystones)

1. (geology) A stalactite or stalagmite.

形容詞

drystone (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of dry-stone
   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 440:

     They drove on, every rise in the road lifting their sightline clear of the drystone dykes along the roadside, gifting glimpses of the firth and the islands, the blue peaks of Arran.

   • 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 597:

     He had forgotten that on this side there was a drystone wall sheep pen.

派生語

参照

• “drystone”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

語源

From dry +‎ stone.

形容詞

dry-stone (not comparable)

1. (of a wall, bridge, building, etc.) Constructed by laying carefully selected stones on top of each other, and bedding them down with no mortar.

   dry-stone wall

   • 2016, Angus J. L. Winchester, Dry Stone Walls: History and Heritage‎, Amberley Publishing, →ISBN:

     The first part of the book traces the history of dry stone walls from medieval times to the present. The standard form of most walls probably dates from Tudor times but the great era of wall-building in the uplands took place comparatively recently, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

派生語

• dry-stone dyke

Further reading

• dry stone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia