| 单词 | coal trough |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoal trough coal trough n. (a) a trough used as a container for coal; (b) Geology an elongated depression containing coal-bearing strata. ΚΠ 1793 Sporting Mag. Mar. 367/1 A hare..jumped into the window of a blacksmith's shop at Salehurst and was taken alive in the coal trough. 1814 Philos. Mag. 43 326 Below this occur what I have denominated the Floor Rocks of the Anglesea Coal-trough. 1971 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 79 308/1 The recognition and mapping of intermontane coal troughs is a reliable method of reconstructing the tectonic history of an orogenic belt. 2007 West Australian (Perth) (Nexis) 1 Oct. 11 Boys commonly worked in smithies, filling water and coal troughs, blowing the fires and using the sledgehammer. < as lemmas |
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