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单词 coal stealer rake
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coal stealer rake
coal-stealer n. (a) Scottish (more fully coal stealer rake) a disreputable person, a vagabond (obsolete); (b) a person who steals coal.
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1665 in Bk. Old Edinb. Club (1912) V. 126 Ane coillsteiller..is s[ai]d to have beine killed.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Coalstealer Rake, a thief, a vagabond, or one who rakes during night for the purpose of depredation.
1905 Railroad Gaz. 17 Mar. 85/1 The police officers of the Erie Railroad in a space of 10 days have arrested over 200 coal stealers and other trespassers.
2011 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 25 May 22 Trained police dogs were first used by the county police in 1955, to the disapprobation of coal-stealers at Wolstanton Colliery.
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