| 释义 |
ˈair-box
[air- 7.]
1. The air-chamber of a fire-engine or life-boat.
1838Poe Pym Wks. 1864 IV. 20 Fitted..with air-boxes in the manner of some life-boats. 1857Tomes Amer. in Japan xiv. 316 These engines..are deficient in the important part of the machine called the air-box.
2. Mining: ‘A square wooden tube used to convey air into the face of a single drift, or shaft, in sinking.’ Northumb. & Durh. Coal-trade Terms, 1851. |