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单词 coal scuttle
释义

coal scuttlen.

Brit. /ˈkəʊl ˌskʌtl/, U.S. /ˈkoʊl ˌskədəl/
Forms: see coal n. and scuttle n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: coal n., scuttle n.1
Etymology: < coal n. + scuttle n.1
A bucket, usually with a sloping lip, for holding, carrying, and pouring coal for a domestic fire; a coal box.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > container in which to store coal
coal pot1681
coal box1701
coal scuttle1730
coal scoop1743
coal hod1781
hoda1825
coal skip1831
purdonium1847
scuttle1849
scoop1850
1730 Daily Jrnl. 21 Mar. (advt.) Copper Coal-Scuttles.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 197 The pain occasioned by the fall of the coal-scuttle upon his foot.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Coal-hod..otherwise called the coal-scuttle.
1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. i. 10 Carts loaded with old tin kettles and worn-out iron coal-skuttles.
1885 T. Mozley Reminisc. Towns (ed. 2) I. 377 Childers at once pronounced me a north-country-man when I called the coal-scuttle a ‘coal-pan’.
1917 Boys' Life Mar. 20/1 An old woman bringing up a coal scuttle full of coal from the cellar of one of the stores.
1968 A. MacLeod in Mass. Rev. 9 250 Behind the stove was a box of kindlings and beside it a coal scuttle.
2007 Daily Tel. 13 Feb. 15/1 George Burden, 44, dropped his telephone as he made off with a brass coal scuttle, a set of Victorian scales and an oval table from an empty house.

Compounds

coal-scuttle bonnet n. now historical a woman's bonnet resembling an inverted coal scuttle, usually having a wide projecting brim covering the top and sides of the face.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > woman's bonnet > types of > coal scuttle or sun bonnet
coal-scuttle bonnet1797
sun bonnet1820
kappie1834
scoop bonnet1846
1797 True Briton 26 Jan. It is a curious circumstance that the Coal-scuttle Bonnet was invented by a certain votress of Pharo, whom the Magistrates lately threatened to ‘draw over the coals’.
1867 M. E. Braddon Run to Earth III. xi. 220 A pretty face never looked prettier than when dimly seen in the shadowy depths of a coal-scuttle bonnet.
1959 Amer. Q. 11 487 The coal-scuttle bonnet and cap, the plain shawl and dove-gray gown, that ultimately became a kind of Quaker uniform.
2003 S. Robinson Serious Occup. 107 It must be a doll dressed in a drab gown and a coal-scuttle bonnet—not a worldly doll, in gauze and spangles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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