单词 | coaly |
释义 | coalyn. 1. colloquial. A coal-heaver, a coal porter. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who carry coal coal carrier1596 coal-bearer1606 coal-heaver1654 coal porter1711 coaly1820 coal backer1834 1820 T. Hudson Comic Songs 30 The Coalheaver could boast of strength... Coaly's fist was near the size Of a decent leg of mutton. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. III. 344 The coalies, not knowing who he was, thought they would give the bounce a turn, as they termed him, and, without any delay, commenced an attack. 1860 All Year Round 12 May 119 The coalies..touch their sou'westers to him as he glides about. 1873 Bradford Observer 2 Oct. 6/6 There was a lawlessness that distinguished ‘fillers’ and ‘backers’ on board the wharfside barges that is altogether foreign to the modern family of inland ‘coaleys’. 1911 Truth (Sydney) 5 Feb. 1/7 It is an ironical fact that houses built for wharf-lumpers and coalies should have a rent which only a middle-class semi-genteel city coin-counter..could look at. 1982 Access Mar. 21 On the coal wharves, which were called Siberia because the work was so hard, the ‘coalies’ even had to provide their own shovels! 2010 Express (Nexis) 14 Oct. 32 By 1911 the firm's capacity was such that it could deliver coal at the rate of 4,000 tons in 15 hours, a world record, though it meant back-breaking work for the poorly paid coalies. 2. Now chiefly in form coley. = coalfish n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > pollachius virens (coal-fish) lob-keelingc1325 coalfish1337 lob1357 pollack1427 gull-fish1583 saithe1632 colmey1654 billard1661 rawlin pollack1673 sey-pollack1698 blackmouth1703 billet1769 greenback1772 green cod1776 glossan1780 stenlock179. harbin1806 coalsey1829 rock salmon1831 rauning pollack1835 green pollack1859 coaly1915 1915 Brit. Sea Anglers' Soc. Q. 8 127 A fine game coalfish... When almost within reach of Donald, the ‘coaly’ plunged dangerously. 1965 Times 11 Oct. 13/1 In this country coley is largely bought for the cat; yet it is as tasty, more juicy and cheaper than cod. 1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 210 Many Americans wouldn't know..that a coalfish or a coley fillet is black cod. 2004 Journal (Newcastle) (Nexis) 24 Apr. (Sport Digest section) 3 But not a sizeable fish, not even a coaly, was taken. 2009 W. Sweetser Connoisseurs Guide Fish & Seafood 54 In Bergen, Norway..wildly flapping, live coley are a familiar sight in the market. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). coalyadj. 1. Of the colour of coal; coal-black. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as coal coal-blackc1275 as black (in early use also swart) as coala1400 coaly1565 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 8v A coly colour [L. nigrantis]. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxv. sig. Yy2v Vpon thy face let coaly Rauens swarme. 1803 Ainsworth's Mag. 4 133 It will be but a Pot and Kettle recrimination, and only discover the coaly complexion of each of us. 1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 217 The moveless coaly eye. 1934 J. Mitchell Wheels of Ind vi. 220 Stand on the edge..gaze down sheer into its coaly depths. 1990 N. Blei Chi Town 42 That three-minute, simulated electric train ride in the coaly darkness. 2. Covered with coal or coal-dust; grimy, dirty; (also) characterized by the presence of coal. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > dirty or soiled with soot or coal-dust sootya1250 culmya1300 bletchy1520 sootish1582 coaly1589 collowed1606 fuliginous1606 colly1619 coomy1823 sooted1892 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxx. 130 Vnto the Trough he hies, And skowres his coalie fists and face. 1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 104 Black colie smith. 1673 J. Milton At Vacation Exercise in Poems (new ed.) 68 Of utmost Tweed..Or Coaly Tine, or antient hollowed Dee. 1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 29 A rich country, watered by the coaly Tyne. 1856 Titan Mag. Dec. 526/2 Coal pits, coaly mounds, coaly people, coaly donkeys, carts, ponies, and other coaly things, that we can think, feel, see nothing beyond coal. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iv. iv. 187 The coaly..little steamboat. 1888 Young Mistley II. vi. 82 Around each pit was grouped its little coaly village. 1973 Economist 1 July 16 The damp and coaly plain has been transformed into the new town of Washington, and if anyone is contemplating building a factory that is where he is rightly tempted to go. 1993 S. Stewart Ramlin Rose iv. 28 Oop at first light and into stinkin coaly clothes. 3. Of the nature of coal; carbonaceous. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [adjective] > yielding a mineral or metal > coal coaly1594 coaled1724 coal-bearing1813 anthracitous1823 anthraciferous1833 lignitiferous1859 carboniferous1865 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [adjective] > coal coalish1540 coaly1594 carbonaceous1727 carbonose1811 carbonic1819 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 33 A blacke and hard colie crust upon it. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Charbonnesque, coalie, of coales. 1795 J. Hutton Theory Earth I. 575 We have the coaly matter intimately mixed with argillaceous and with calcareous strata. 1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 190 The ill-compacted cellular tissue of the algæ is but indifferently suited for preservation; and so it exists as a mere coaly film. 1933 New Phytologist 32 100 The use of a somewhat diluted acid solution..results in a considerable swelling of the seed coat but only partial solution of its coaly substance. 2010 F. J. Dahlkamp Uranium Deposits World: USA & Lat. Amer. i. 101/2 The truncated Cutler formation..consists of tan to reddish terrestrial sediments with only rare coaly substances. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1820adj.1565 |
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