| 单词 | staple-pit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstaple-pit (See quots.) Also staple-pit. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shaft > other types stulm1693 whim-shaft1759 sump shaft1778 channel1816 staple1818 incline shaft1842 raise1877 stair-pit1883 subshaft1889 1818 J. Adley Coal Trade 8 With sinking staples and driving drifts You're often put to all your shifts. 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 50 Staple, a small pit, sunk upwards or downwards from one seam to another underground. 1862 Times 28 Jan. A ‘staple’, or narrow shaft communicating with the upper seam. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 238 Staple or Staple pit, a shallow shaft within a mine. 1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 733 I was near done when I got out, and then had to travel round and get out by a stapple. 1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 131 Bob Pringle has fa'en into a stapple fu' o' water in the great-seam waste. 1900 Engin. Mag. 19 714 Into all of these operations—cutting the coal by machinery,..hoisting trams up small ‘staple’ pits from one seam to another,..electricity now enters very largely. < as lemmas |
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