Mining. A miner's compass. Now chiefly historical.
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| 释义 | society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > other mining equipment (19) dial1681 Mining. A miner's compass. Now chiefly historical. stick1708 Mining. English regional (chiefly northern). A marked wooden token placed on a full corf (corf, n.1 2) to identify it as the work of a certain… motty1797 Mining. A miner's tally; a stick of wood or disc of metal, notched or stamped in a particular way, placed on a full corf to identify it as the… nail1839 Extended uses. Mining. A blasting needle. Obsolete. spiking crib or curb1839 spiking cribor curb: (see later quots.). spile1841 Mining. A sharp-pointed post used in sinking by means of cribs. bull1849 Mining. An iron rod used in the process of blasting. dag1863 dialect. (See quots.) ore bin1867 monitor1873 Mining. A jointed nozzle used in hydraulic mining, which may be turned in any direction. Billy Fairplay1876 (See quot. 1883.) snibble1883 (See quot. 1883.) brattice-cloth1885 stout tarred cloth used in mines instead of wooden bratticing. breaker1885 In anthracite mining, an apparatus for breaking, sizing, and cleaning coal for the market. steam point1895 (a) a temperature at which liquid water and water vapour are in equilibrium; spec. the boiling point of water under standard atmospheric… picking belt1900 a conveyor belt on which something (as coal, scrap, etc.) is picked or sorted. self-rescuer1924 Any of various relatively small, lightweight breathing devices designed to be carried by coal miners for emergency use in the presence of noxious… rock duster1930 A machine which spreads pulverized rock around a coal mine in order to reduce the risk of coal-dust explosions; (also) a person who does this. walking dragline1930 a large machine for excavating land, supported and propelled by movable feet. |
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