单词 | crow coal |
释义 | > as lemmascrow coal 10. Mining. Used attributively to denote a poor or impure bed of coal, limestone, etc.; e.g. in crow bed, crow chert, crow coal, crow lime(stone. (Cf. crow-gold n. at Compounds 2) northern and Scottish. ΚΠ 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom (1810) I. 62 What is meant by the crawcoal is the crop-coal..which is always supposed to be a thin one. 1836 J. Phillips Geol. Yorks. ii. 66 Thus we have Crow chert, Crow limestone, Crow lime. 1852 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 13 i. 208 Small beds of the kind called crow coal (only useful for burning lime). < as lemmas |
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