| 单词 | raking-coal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasraking-coal raking-coal n. Scottish and English regional (northern) (now rare) a large lump of coal placed on a fire to keep it smouldering; = raker n.1 5. Sc. National Dict. (at Rake) records the word as still in use, chiefly in southern Scotland, in 1967. ΚΠ a1859 W. Watt Poems & Songs (1860) 233 Syne rumbled up the rakin' coal, That shaw'd his shin a' bluid. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. xiii. 276 Philip went about undoing the shutters, and trying to break up the raking coal, with as little noise as might be. 1935 D. Kirkwood Life of Revolt 55 The ‘rakin' coal’ was the equivalent in the home of damping down the fire in the works or smooring the fire in the Highlands. < as lemmas |
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