| 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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