| 单词 | coal bank |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoal bank coal bank n. †(a) a stretch of waterside where coal is loaded into boats (obsolete); (b) U.S. a raised area where a seam of coal is exposed for opencast mining. ΚΠ 1705 Affidavits, Certificates, & Presentments 24/1 The Ship or Bark..; after lying several Tides at the said Sir Humphry Mackworth's Coal Bank, was forced to go away empty. 1800 H. Steuart Suppl. Plan supplying Edinb. with Coal 43 By means of bearers..they [sc. coals] might, upon occasion, be brought from the water-level to the coal-bank, even with no more than 10 fathom pits. 1805 in L. Collins & R. H. Collins Hist. Sketches Kentucky (1874) I. 408 A coal bank is within three hundred yards. 1886 Harper's Mag. June 62/2 A gentleman who wanted a coal bank opened engaged for the work a man passing along the road. 1922 Outlook 12 July 460/1 Horizontally through all the ridges run coal veins—any man can climb varying distances into his corn-field and open him up a ‘coal bank’. 1980 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 7 Dec. vii. 40 Jimmy manfully shoulders his rusty pick..and struggles up the hill to an abandoned coal bank. 2005 P. L. Bryan & T. Wolf Midnight Assassin i. 3 He wanted Ivan to come with him to the coal bank, an exposed vein of soft coal located a few miles to the east of their family farm. < as lemmas |
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