| 单词 | whim-round |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhim-round C2. General attributive, as whim-driver, whim-engine, whim-gin, whim-horse, whim-house, whim-kibble, whim-rope, whim-round, whim-shaft. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > winch or capstan windas1293 wind1399 windlassc1400 fern1546 stow?1549 capstock1551 winch1577 draw-beam1585 wind-beam1585 winder1585 capstring1609 crab1627 guindall1628 gin1632 Jack1686 screw engine1688 twirl1688 moulineta1706 jack roll1708 wind-lifta1734 whim1738 stowce1747 whim-engine1759 macaroni gin1789 whimsy1789 winze1839 jack roller1843 wink1847 winding engine1858 fusee-windlass1874 come-along1891 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > that turns a piece of machinery mill-horsec1443 mill-jade1612 whip-horse1677 gin-horse1693 whim-horse1759 well-horse1894 society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shaft > other types stulm1693 whim-shaft1759 sump shaft1778 channel1816 staple1818 incline shaft1842 raise1877 stair-pit1883 subshaft1889 1759 W. Borlase in Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 504 The whim-house shook so terribly, that a man there at work ran out of it, concluding it to be falling. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 144 A whym Shaft to draw the Deads and Ore from the Sump of the Mine. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 150 Two horses..go round upon a platform named the Whym-round. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 165 In deep Mines, some whym ropes cost fifty or sixty pounds. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis Gloss. at Kibbal A Whym-Kibbal is a larger [bucket], which..serves to draw water with, or bring up the Ore to grass. 1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 684 In a whim gin the ropes run upon two wheel pullies over the shaft. 1834 2nd Rep. Cornwall Polytechn. Soc. 41 The Steam Whim Engine. 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 139 Shafts..intended for the extraction of ores (called whim-shafts where horse-whims are employed for extracting the produce). ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 84 Whim Driver. 1896 J. Hocking Fields of Fair Renown i The boy who drove the ‘whim horse’ cracked his whip. < as lemmas |
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