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单词 spoil-ground
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spoil-ground
a. attributive and in other combinations, chiefly in sense 10, as spoil-earth, spoil-ground, spoil-heap, spoil tip, etc.; also, in sense 1, spoil-hunting adj., spoil-taker. See also spoil bank n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > mining refuse or rubbish
rough1677
old man1747
small1778
stent1778
vestry1784
gobbin1811
spoil1838
stowing1860
dump1865
muck1883
spoil-heap1883
mine-dump1909
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > mining refuse or rubbish > tip for
spoil tip1967
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxv. viii. 274 The Romans..when they had..driven away the Saracen spoyle-takers [etc.].
1851 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad iv. 67 The spoil-hunting daughter of Jove..averted the deadly weapon.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 232 Spoil-bank or Spoil-heap, the place on the surface where spoil is deposited.
1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 36 A quarry—a very old one, judging by the many large heaps of spoil-earth..over which grass had grown.
1927 F. B. Young Portrait of Clare i. iii. 34 The black dome of the Mawne Road spoil-heap fell away on her left into the tree-softened contours of Mawne Bank.
1967 Times Rev. Industry May 58/1 Around it [sc. Doncaster] stretches a flat, ill-drained corner of Yorkshire's West Riding, pockmarked with colliery spoil tips.
1972 Times 4 July 3/2 A devastated landscape of abandoned slurry ponds and spoil tips.
1973 Times 18 May 4/5 Above them towered the 300ft Eppleston spoilheap, started in the 1820s and at its peak containing well over 1,500,000 tons of red shale, dwarfing the houses.
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