| 单词 | street gas |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstreet gas street gas n. now historical coal gas as formerly used in street lighting. ΚΠ 1831 Monthly Rev. Dec. 627 Patents have been recently taken out for improvements..in manufacturing street gas. 1918 A. Symons Cities & Sea-Coasts & Islands II. 209 The dim, sufficing street-gas of the lamp-posts. 1954 C. R. Hall Hist. Amer. Industr. Sci. iii. 79 Etienne Lenoir..placed one of them [sc. stationary engines] in a vehicle in 1862, and drove the crude contraption from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont..using ‘street gas’ as fuel. < as lemmas |
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