| 单词 | sill-pencil |
| 释义 | > as lemmassill-pencil a. A kind of clay found in coal-measures. Also attributive, as sill-coal, sill-pencil. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > in coal measures clunch1686 soap-scale1704 sill1774 poundstone1799 clunch-clay1815 blond-metal1831 1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 491 A shining kind of stony clay, called by the miners sill, lying in large beds in coal grounds. 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. Sill-coal, coal which my informant describes as being found ‘in the clunches’. 1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (new ed.) Sill, the soft clay of the coal measures, used for slate pencils, which are called sill pencils. < as lemmas |
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