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单词 buntons
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buntonsn.

/ˈbʌntənz/
Etymology: originally in singular bunting, a piece of squared timber, of obscure etymology.1633 Gateshead Church Bks. in Heslop Northumberland Words (1892) (at cited word) It. pd for one bunting and two sparres to a yeat and the makeing it, 4s. 4d.
Strong balks of timber placed crosswise in the shaft of a mine serving to divide it into compartments and to support the guides on which the cages run, etc. (Rarely singular.)
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 971 In quadrant shafts the buntons cross each other towards the middle of the pit.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 986 The compartment intended for the upcast is made air-tight at top, by placing strong buntons or beams across it.
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) 51 Buntons, strong balks of timber.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 450/2 Pieces of timber parallel to the end-pieces (buntons or dividings) are fixed across the shaft, and serve to stay the wall-plates.
1888 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham (ed. 3) 81 Standing Set, a cistern which stands on a strong oak bunton.
1967 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) ix. 6 Bunton, one of a series of horizontal beams set at intervals across a shaft to support rigid guides, cables and pipes and, in rectangular shafts, to act as struts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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