| 单词 | recoal | 
| 释义 | recoalv. 1.  transitive. To supply with fresh coal. Chiefly in passive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > search for coal			[verb (intransitive)]		 > take in a supply of coal > of a steamship recoal1842 1842    Times 20 Dec. 3/5  				The Atlantic outward bound steamer shall, immediately on her arrival at St. Thomas, be re-coaled. 1887    R. A. Proctor Chance & Luck 212  				My fire, which in the meantime must very nearly have gone out, had been recoaled. 1916    Christian Sci. Monitor 5 June 1/7  				A couple of hours after returning to port all British vessels engaged were recoaled and ready again for action. 1978    T. Willis Buckingham Palace Connection viii. 155  				The Royal Flush [sc. a steam locomotive] had been re-coaled and watered and was ready to leave. 1991    High Life 		(Brit. Airways)	 May 51/4  				Ships had to be re-coaled and re-supplied at Alexandria.  2.  intransitive. Esp. of a steamship: to take in a fresh supply of coal. ΚΠ 1845    Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 7 May 266/2  				The packet returns to Vera Cruz and Havannah. Here she recoals, then proceeds to..Bermuda. 1872    Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 3 414  				After leaving here, in about one week we will reach St. John's, and spend some three or four days there recoaling. 1901    Science 16 Aug. 272/1  				The steamer Zaria..has just arrived at that place to re-coal. 1949    Mariner's Mirror 35 72  				She recoaled at Kinsale and steamed on to Liverpool. 2005    Sunday Tel. 		(Sydney)	 		(Nexis)	 27 Feb.  i26  				The stark, glacier-shorn peaks of The Remarkables silently watch as the Earnslaw re-coals. Derivatives  reˈcoaling  n. ΚΠ 1853    Mechanics' Mag. 10 Dec. 467/2  				It was stated a large steamer was intended to run to India..without re-coaling. 1884    Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Nov. 5/1  				The necessity for frequent recoaling seriously reduces her speed. 1995    Archivist No. 108. 6/2  				The recoaling station for the French steam-driven vessels in the nineteenth century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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