The steep face of a quarry or other excavation (quarry heugh); an excavation for coal, originally open; a coal-pit; figurative a pit.
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释义 | society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > quarry > [noun] > parts of quarry (4) heugh1592 The steep face of a quarry or other excavation (quarry heugh); an excavation for coal, originally open; a coal-pit; figurative a pit. jad1871 In the Bath-stone quarries: ‘A long deep holing or cutting made for the purpose of detaching large blocks of stone from their natural beds’ (Gresley… butt1884 A boundary between a stratum of rock that is to be quarried and a stratum of different rock. Obsolete. rare. overlay1886 A thing laid over something else; a covering, an overlying layer, etc. Also figurative. |
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