| 单词 | mine pit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmine pit mine pit n. a shaft leading to an underground mine; (also) the excavated area of a surface or opencast mine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shaft groovea1400 shaft1433 sink1557 mine pit1587 sinking1613 footway1778 shank1790 mine shaft1818 society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > excavated area mine working1826 mine pit1862 1587 Star Chamber Proc. in E. Straker Wealden Iron (1931) (modernized text) II. 439 He [sc. Richard Harding]..took a great stone and came to the minepit side. 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Num. iv. 3) 5 A labouring even to lassitude; compared therefore to..digging in mine-pits. 1862 A. C. Ramsay et al. Descr. Catal. Rock Specim. (ed. 3) 148 These still go by the name of ‘mine-pits’, and must not be confounded with the ‘marl-pits’, or those other deeper openings. 1988 Canad. Geographic Feb. 39/1 ‘The Nuisance Grounds’ is Christie's name for the town dump. It could be the name for Bristol's mine pit, or any other landfill site. < as lemmas |
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