moor-coaln.

Brit.

/ˈmʊə ˌkəʊl/,

/ˈmɔː ˌkəʊl/, U.S.

/ˈmʊr ˌkoʊl/

Forms: see moor n.¹ and coal n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: moor n.¹, coal n.

Etymology: < moor n.¹ + coal n. The sense in mineralogy is after German Moorkohle (A. G. Werner, cited in J.-P. van Berchem-Berthout and H. Struve Principes de minéralogie (1795) 153).

Now historical.

Peat used for burning. Also in Mineralogy: †a friable variety of lignite (obsolete).

ΚΠ

1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 4 §6 Woorking..of any..Stone Sea Cole, Stone Cole, Moore Cole or Cherk Cole.

1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2113 Moor-Tin..we find runs or melts best with Moor-Coal, chark't: But our Tin, which lyes in the Countrey, runs best with an equal proportion of all Char-coal, and Peate (i.e. Moor-coals) for the first running.

1816 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 378 Moor-Coal or Trapezoidal Coal.

1921 Amer. Hist. Rev. 27 2 The Venetian ambassador [in Britain in the mid-17th cent.] sends back a quaint account of the wide use of coal in industry. Sea-coal, stone-coal, and moor-coal are all mentioned.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	moor-coal
释义	moor-coaln. Brit. /ˈmʊə ˌkəʊl/, /ˈmɔː ˌkəʊl/, U.S. /ˈmʊr ˌkoʊl/ Forms: see moor n.¹ and coal n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: moor n.¹, coal n. Etymology: < moor n.¹ + coal n. The sense in mineralogy is after German Moorkohle (A. G. Werner, cited in J.-P. van Berchem-Berthout and H. Struve Principes de minéralogie (1795) 153). Now historical. Peat used for burning. Also in Mineralogy: †a friable variety of lignite (obsolete). ΚΠ 1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 4 §6 Woorking..of any..Stone Sea Cole, Stone Cole, Moore Cole or Cherk Cole. 1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2113 Moor-Tin..we find runs or melts best with Moor-Coal, chark't: But our Tin, which lyes in the Countrey, runs best with an equal proportion of all Char-coal, and Peate (i.e. Moor-coals) for the first running. 1816 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 378 Moor-Coal or Trapezoidal Coal. 1921 Amer. Hist. Rev. 27 2 The Venetian ambassador [in Britain in the mid-17th cent.] sends back a quaint account of the wide use of coal in industry. Sea-coal, stone-coal, and moor-coal are all mentioned. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1562
随便看	to make the erber to make the feathers fly to make the first move to make the frame to make the front page to make the front pages to make the fur fly to make the gardyloo to make the gates gnede to make the grade to make the grand tour to make the groceries to make the hard yards to make the headlines to make the most of to make the move to make the news to make the newspapers to make the pass to make the plunge to make the point to make the point that to make the post to make the pot boil to make the pot with the two ears