| 单词 |
coal-work |
| 释义 |
ˈcoal-work †1. Drawing in carbon or crayon. Obs.
1651G. Daniel Eclog. Let., You may iudge Draughts sometimes in Cole-Works, to hit the Naturalitie of Lines Studied by finer Pencills. 2. A place where coal is worked or mined; a colliery. Usually pl. (Cf. ironworks.)
1665D. Dudley Metallum Martis (1854) 8 Often fals the cole-works on Fire..flaming out of the Pits. 1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4705/1 Owners of the Coal-Works. 1853D. Landale in Pharmac. Jrnl. XIII. 127 Manager of a coal-work. So ˈcoal-worker, a coal-miner. ˈcoal-working, a place where coal is worked, a colliery.
1726Lond. Gaz. No. 6438/2 William Clarke..a Coalworker. 1838Penny Cycl. XI. 149/2 In the practical department of coal-working, geology can as yet render little aid. 1862Ansted Hungary & Transylv. 124 (L.) At last we reached the coal-workings, and a more deserted, melancholy-looking place for a mine I have never seen. |

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