单词 | coalhouse |
释义 | coalhousen. An outbuilding, covered space, etc., for the storage of coal.Formerly often with allusion or reference to a coalhouse at the palace of Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, which was used as a place of confinement during the persecution of Protestants in the reign of Queen Mary I of England (1553–8). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > place in which to store or sell coal coal cellar1281 coalhouse1332 coal garth1593 coal-hole?1641 coal yard1646 coal fold1704 ree1707 coal shed1718 coal pen1763 coal bunker1837 1332 in G. Kristensson Stud. Middle Eng. Topogr. Terms (1970) 55 Joh. del Colhous... Joh. del Colehous. 1404–5 in 9th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Pt. 1 (1883) App. 24 in Parl. Papers (C. 3773) XXXVII. 1 Colehous..wodehous. 1465 J. Payn in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 315 And by-cause þat I wolde not þey had me vp to Westminster and þer wolde have sent me to the cole-house at Wyndsore. 1507 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 382 Ane key to his colehous dur. 1555 J. Philpot in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1822) III. ii. App. xlix. 383 Synce I cam to the Bishop's colehowse, I have ben six tymes in examination. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2271/1 Then was she caryed into the Colehouse, and searched for bookes. 1625 in R. W. Ambler et al. Farmers & Fishermen (1987) 138 In the colehouses. 1654 J. Trapp Comm. Job iii. 18 Martyrs, kept fast shut up in Lollards Tower, in the Bishop of Londons cole-house. 1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. iii. 107 Bonner..ordered him first into the Stocks in his Coal-House and from thence to Smithfield. 1799 T. Jefferson Let. c21 Dec. in Papers (2004) XXXI. 271 Davy & Lewis..to mend the coal houses. 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §721 The Coal-house and the Wood-house should always be adjoining the kitchen. 1881 Chicago Times 16 Apr. The company is constructing a depot building, coal houses, and tanks at Leaf River. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers i. 32 She went down to the coal-house. 1976 Derbyshire Times 3 Sept. (Peak ed.) 16/2 (advt.) Integral garage, coal house, rose garden to front. 1996 J. Grenfell-Hill Growing up in Wales Introd. 17 Coal had to be eked out so that there was always sufficient in the coal house to light the fire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1332 |
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