单词 | pit-coal |
释义 | pit-coaln. Coal obtained from a pit or mine, as distinct from charcoal; (also) spec. black or bituminous coal (as opposed to anthracite or lignite).In early use also as a count noun. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] coal1253 sea-coal1253 pit-coal1483 cannel1541 earth coala1552 horse coal1552 Newcastle coal1552 stone-coal1585 cannel coal1587 parrot1594 burn-coal1597 lithanthrax1612 stony coal1617 Welsh coala1618 land-coala1661 foot coal1665 peacock coal1686 rough coal1686 white coal1686 heathen-coalc1697 coal-stone1708 round1708 stone-coal1708 bench-coal1712 slipper coal1712 black coal1713 culm1742 rock coal1750 board coal1761 Bovey coal1761 house coal1784 mineral coal1785 splint1789 splint coal1789 jet coal1794 anthracite1797 wood-coal1799 blind-coal1802 black diamond1803 silk-coal1803 glance-coal1805 lignite1808 Welsh stone-coal1808 soft1811 spout coals1821 spouter1821 Wallsend1821 brown coal1833 paper coal1833 steam-coal1850 peat-coal1851 cherry-coal1853 household1854 sinter coal1854 oil coal1856 raker1857 Kilkenny coal1861 Pottery coal1867 silkstone1867 block coal1871 admiralty1877 rattlejack1877 bunker1883 fusain1883 smitham1883 bunker coal1885 triping1886 trolley coal1890 kibble1891 sea-borne1892 jet1893 steam1897 sack coal1898 Welsh1898 navigation coal1900 Coalite1906 clarain1919 durain1919 vitrain1919 single1921 kolm1930 hards1956 1483 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 421 ‘Pytte Coles’ at the feast of St. Peter's ad Vincula. 1600 in R. Welford Hist. Newcastle & Gateshead (1887) III. 141 The loading and better disposing of sea-coals and pit-coals, grindstones, rubstones, and whetstones. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 141 The greatest quantitie and best kind of pit-coales is in Nottinghamshire. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 125 The History of Pit-coal, otherwise called Sea-coale. 1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 167 Proposes with Pit-Coal Fire to make Bar Iron from Pig Metal. 1755 Accurate Descr. Cape Breton 33 Mines of Pit-Coal are found in this Island, which is transported to the Antilles, and fine Quarries of several kinds of Marble. 1768 J. Watt Let. in E. Robinson & D. McKie Partners in Sci. (1970) 9 A fat pit-coal is used for burning the stone-ware. 1826 T. Flint Recoll. Last Ten Years 223 Vast volumes of water, and sand, and pit-coal were discharged. 1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 30 The former is called brown coal, or lignite, while many varieties of the latter are classed together under the common name of bituminous or pit-coal. 1905 M. S. Giuseppi Victoria Hist. County of Surrey (1967) II. 300/1 Making of all manner of glasses with sea-coal, pit-coal, fucashe or any other fuel not being of wood. 1994 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 74 26 The pit coal exploited nearby, in Huayllay and Rancas, was an important mining input there. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1483 |
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