单词 | coalery |
释义 | coaleryn. Now historical or regional. A coal mine; = colliery n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > coal-mine pit1447 coal mine1475 coal work?1610 coalery1644 colliery1648 coalface1771 coal-working1774 1644 Perfect Diurnall (Temple-Bar ed.) 8 July 400 The owners of the Coalery..should furnish the City with severall chaldron of Coales. 1651 J. Cleveland News from Newcastle 2 The Sun's Heav'ns Coalery, and Coals our Sun. 1695 London Gaz. No. 3059/4 A General meeting of all the proprietors of the Blyth Colery. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 29 Masters not only of Northumberland and the Bishoprick of Duresme, but of the coalries. 1793 Considerations Coals in Scotl. 9 The old established coaleries. 1849 F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers (1851) i. 30 There arose out of the shafts of our coaleries..Old George Stephenson. 1919 Iron Age 13 Feb. 464/1 The plant will be located at Asansol in the Bengal coal fields, about 130 miles from Calcutta, where the company will operate its own coaleries. 1993 S. Stewart Ramlin Rose vi. 68 The bogey-waggons loaded the coal at the coalery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1644 |
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