单词 | buntons |
释义 | buntonsn. 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.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > partition in mine stopping1708 buntons1839 bulkhead1881 dam1881 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > block blockc1305 clogc1440 chocka1582 chunk1781 wood-block1837 buntons1839 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). < n.1839 |
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。