| 单词 | coal-cutting |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoal-cutting coal-cutting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > other specific mining processes > in coal-mining outstroke1747 holing1841 coal-cutting1842 patio1845 sumping1849 bottoming1856 salting1856 patio process1862 spragging1865 yardage1877 booming1880 brushing1883 filling1883 sounding1883 yard-work1883 blanketing1884 goafing1888 freezing process1889 power loading1901 bashing1905 rock dusting1915 mucking1918 solid stowing1929 stone-dusting1930 roof bolting1949 rock bolting1955 1842 J. Wilson Water Cure 126 Coal-cutting is hard work while it lasts; the workman is on his knees, or sitting, while he is hacking away in his hole. 1854 Trans. North of Eng. Inst. Mining Engineers 2 70 (title) Waring's coal cutting machine. 1897 Star 17 Sept. 2/6 In some of the thin seams of that district [sc. the Yorkshire coalfield], the coal-cutting has for some time been done by machine—by the ‘iron man’. 1921 Geogr. Jrnl. 57 148 The coal lies nearly horizontally over large areas and is of very uniform thickness, making possible the use of coal-cutting machinery on a large scale. 1958 I. C. F. Statham Coal Mining Pract. I. vii. 298 Mechanised methods are now generally adopted for the coal-cutting in these narrow opening-up places. 2008 Mining Mag. (Nexis) Sept. 60 Cameras..have been susceptible to damage from the rough and tumble of the coal-cutting process. < as lemmas |
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