A kind of after-damp in mines, etc.
| 单词 | θ75434 |
| 释义 | the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > noxious vapour or gas > in mines > choke-damp (9) stanch1693 A kind of after-damp in mines, etc. suffocating damp1695 suffocating damp = choke-damp, n. So suffocating shaft. Obsolete. stythe1708 Foul air in a mine; = choke-damp, n. surfeit1708 Mining. = afterdamp n. at after-, prefix affix 3. English regional (northern). Now rare. black damp1736 air that is unbreathable owing to a high content of carbon dioxide; = choke-damp, n.; cf. damp, n.1 1b. choke-damp1766 A miner's term for the carbonic acid gas (or air largely mixed therewith) which accumulates in old workings in coal-pits, and at the bottom of… afterdamp1813 unbreathable gases (esp. carbon monoxide) arising in a mine after an explosion; cf. choke-damp, n., firedamp, n. white damp1817 carbon monoxide gas; cf. black damp n. at black, adj. n.compounds 1e(a), firedamp, n., etc. stanch-air1883 = sense 4. |
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