tortoise-core
龟甲芯,玳瑁芯,龟纹核心,龟兹核心
Definitions
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- : Archaeology. a late Lower and Middle Paleolithic stone core characteristic of the Levalloisian tradition of toolmaking, having a rounded top and flattish bottom and prepared in advance to permit the removal of a single ellipsoid flake with one blow from a stone hammer.
Examples
It is a spy series at its core, but you guys never really pull from the headlines.
Another read: “We need leaders who will stand against Common Core.”
A soldier in the service of ideals and aspirations that formed his core.
Some of them would open up deep splits in core Democratic constituencies.
Politicians who openly associated with Duke, or his hard-core associates, did so at their own risk.
But Harris, exhausted and shaken as he was to the very core, paced by his side, only half listening.
In moments of utter bereavement who has not felt, to the heart's core, the tender attachment of a faithful dog?
It was one of the conservative sheets, comic-less, reactionary Republican to the core.
The measure of oil also, a bate of oil is the tenth part of a core: and ten bates make a core: for ten bates fill a core.
She peered at first into Um's room for there, indeed, lay the core of old Mata's heart.