| 单词 | shaft-house | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasshaft-house   shaft-house  n. ‘the heavy framework for the pulleys and landing-place at the top of a mining shaft, some-times enclosed for protection from the weather’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895); also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > 			[noun]		 > mouth or top of mine or shaft > apparatus at mouth of shaft puppet head1778 headgear1835 headstocks1845 poppet-head1869 head house1870 shaft-house1872 shaft-tackle1874 shut1886 1872    Statistics of Mines & Mining 1870 		(U.S. Treasury Dept.)	 344  				The quartz is brought from the mine, unless the mill is in or near the shaft-house, in wagons. 1874    R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 332  				I cannot see the need or use of a shaft-house of such a shape and only 10 feet in diameter. 1882    M. Foote Led-horse Claim 15  				The lights which beckoned to each other across it shone from the shaft houses of Led-Horse and Shoshone mines. 1914    G. Atherton Perch of Devil  ii. 355  				Not daring to summon the shaft-house man, he was sneaking down the ladder. < as lemmas  | 
	
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