单词 | up-brow |
释义 | up-brown. Coal Mining. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > for conveying coal, etc. pithead1662 wagon-way1727 wagon-gallery1839 jig1866 up-brow1867 jig-brow1877 jinny-road1877 plane1877 chain road1883 loader gate1964 1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 135 The bays..will be connected with the main roads by pairs of drifts (up-brows) carried up the rise of the seam; or sometimes..by down-brows. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 268 Up-brow, an inclined plane worked to the rise. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1867 |
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