chessil

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. gravel or pebbles uncountable
    — It might seem probable that such masses as chessil bank, and the beds about Brighton, &c. were lodged, prior to the Deluge, upon the sea shore, and thrown into their present situation by that catastrophe

词形变化

chesil alternative

词源

From Middle English chisel, chesil, from Old English ċeosel, ċisel (“gravel, sand”), from Proto-West Germanic *kesul (“gravel, pebble”).
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