单词 | coal rake |
释义 | > as lemmascoal rake coal rake n. ΚΠ 1574 R. Scot Perfite Platforme of Hoppe Garden 44 A Rake fashioned like a Coale Rake, hauing in steade of teeth a boorde of one foote broade. 1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation i. 56 The Coal-rake, to cleanse the Hole, and to keep it from stopping up. 1725 G. Smith Compl. Body Distilling i. 62 The upper part of the square bars must be even with the higher part of the flat iron bars.., that the fire-shovel or coal-rake may run smoothly along them. 1870 W. Crookes & E. Röhrig Pract. Treat. Metall. III. 683 The side circular doors are opened, and the dust raked out with coal-rakes. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers i. i. 11 I do like that coal-rake of your mother's—it is small and natty. 2014 J. Bryden Fighting to Lose ii. 61 Visions of..phalanxes of grimy workers spilling out of the industrial ghettos of England armed with shovels and coal rakes haunted the Establishment. < as lemmas |
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