Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A crude stone artifact, such as a flake.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rudely chipped flint implement (or what appears to be such) regarded, from its workmanship, as older than the paleoliths. Eoliths are found in the oldest Quaternary deposits of Europe.
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- noun Crudely chopped
flints , believed to be naturally produced by geological processes such asglaciation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint); possibly the earliest tools
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek ἑός (eos, "dawn") + λίθος (lithos, "stone").
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Examples
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From the beginning to the ripening of that phase of human life, from the first clumsy eolith of rudely chipped flint to the first implements of polished stone, was two or three thousand centuries, ten or fifteen thousand generations.
The World Set Free Herbert George 1914
blafferty commented on the word eolith
Hard to believe there's a word for "I thought it was an artifact, but it's just a rock." I think my dad used to call those "leavarites."
May 13, 2011
qms commented on the word eolith
He's more than a chip off the block;
This cave man is cock of the walk.
Not Dad's eolith
But rad neolith
Is what he can knock from a rock.
July 9, 2017