单词 | podar |
释义 | † podarn. Mining. English regional (Cornwall). Obsolete. Pyrites; mundic; esp. copper pyrites as refuse. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > sphalenite group > copper iron sulphide pyrites1567 yellow ore1630 podar1778 magnetic pyrites1809 bornite1811 towanite1852 peacock copper1858 peacock ore1858 homichlin1859 horseflesh ore1868 talnakhite1969 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 325/2 Podar, rotten, corrupt; Mundick—Copper Ore was formerly called Podar. 1816 J. A. Paris Guide Mount's Bay 117 Upon the first discovery of copper ore, the miner, to whom its nature was entirely unknown, gave it the name of Poder... About the year 1735,..Mr. Coster a mineralogist of Bristol observed this Poder among the heaps of rubbish. 1838 J. A. Alexander Amer. Mechanic xxix. 176 The tinners of Cornwall threw away the ores of copper, as refuse, under the name of poder. 1882 F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. Dial. Cornwall Podar, mundic, pyrites. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1778 |
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