单词 | to work home |
释义 | > as lemmasto work home P11. Mining. to work home: to work back towards the main shaft. Now rare. ΚΠ 1835 Rep. Select Comm. Accidents in Mines 343 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 603) V. 1 It is better to drive to the boundary, and work home. 1872 Saward's Coal Trade Circular (N. Y.) 22 May 1/1 Where there is a known danger from spontaneous combustion, it can be obviated by driving to the boundary and working home. 1908 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers 1906–7 33 507 The system..of fore-winning the coal by means of driving out heads to the dip-boundary, or some convenient distance from the shaft, and working home. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。