单词 | mine town |
释义 | > as lemmasmine town mine town n. a town populated chiefly by local miners (cf. mining town n. at mining n. Compounds 1). ΚΠ 1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist vi. 361 At a Mine-Town (if I may so English the German Bergstat)..a Workman came to the Overseer, and desired employment. 1755 A. Berthelson tr. E. Pontoppidan Nat. Hist. Norway i. 183 The new built mine-town of Kongsberg. 1802 Brookes' Gazetteer (ed. 12) Platen, a mine-town of Bohemia. 1966 R. Webster Pract. Gemmol. (ed. 4) xviii. 180 At the mine town of Palmnicken this pit amber..is washed in revolving cylinders with sand and water. < as lemmas |
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