| 单词 | coal drift |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoal drift coal drift n. a horizontal passage or gallery in a coal mine; cf. drift n. 15. ΚΠ 1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 368 A Current of Water that runs through a Coal-Drift. 1850 D. Drake Systematic Treat. Princ. Dis. Interior Valley N. Amer. iii. iv. 695 Dr. Putney saw a negro, who suffered from asthmatic breathing in the coal drifts, cured by being made a kettle tender. 2009 M. Norman & E. M. Norman Tears in Darkness xii. 319 Picking and shoveling and hauling and loading in a labyrinth of damp laterals, long diagonals, and cramped coal drifts. < as lemmas |
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