单词 | coaled |
释义 | coaledadj. 1. Blackened with coal. rare. ΚΠ 1532 E. Stanley Corr. (1890) 74 Their faces being blacke and coled. 1972 A. Cordell Fire People xv. 200 Their hair sealed on their sooted breasts and their teeth white in their coaled faces. 1985 B. Rollin Last Wish (1986) 183 The pumper-man dreams of his evening bath with..his Arley..scrubbing his coaled spine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [adjective] > mined > of coal > bored down to the coal coaled1708 1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 3 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) It is a very good Caution, even in a Coaled Pit, to put down a Bore-Rod about a Fathom. 3. Of wood or peat: turned into charcoal; charred. Cf. coal v. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making charcoal or coke > [adjective] coaled1720 coked1763 charked1870 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) I. i. i. 2/1 Fires..of Spray or Brush-Wood, or Wood coaled. 1838 Farmer's Mag Sept. 182/2 Coaled peat was produced, and sold at a fair profit. 1875 R. B. Anderson tr. G. Svedelius Hand-bk. Charcoal Burners iii. 43 In the same manner as the innermost layers [sc. in a charcoal kiln], the outermost ones should be made from smaller, drier, and more easily coaled wood. 1913 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 52 148 The coaled wood is porous. 4. Containing coal; stocked with coal. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [adjective] > yielding a mineral or metal > coal coaly1594 coaled1724 coal-bearing1813 anthracitous1823 anthraciferous1833 lignitiferous1859 carboniferous1865 1724 W. Stukeley Itinerarium Curiosum in J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle (1789) II. 680 Coaled strata, stone and other materials, jumbled together. 1919 World's Work June (World Peace Suppl.) p. xxvii Canada is not so well coaled, her fields lying in the extreme east and the far west. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1532 |
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