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单词 dead coal
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dead coal
b. A burnt or partially burnt piece of carbonized fuel which is not now glowing or burning; esp. a partially consumed piece of fuel that retains sufficient carbon to be capable of further combustion. Chiefly with distinguishing word, as dead coal, black coal, etc. Cf. as black as coal at Phrases 1.In early use frequently difficult to distinguish from sense 1c; see also note at sense 1a.With quot. OE compare Isidore Origines 19. 6. 7 (the probable source): pruna est quamdiu ardet; quum autem extincta fuerit, carbo nominatur ‘it is pruna for as long as it is burning; but when it has gone out it is called carbo’.
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eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) xvii. 9 Carbones succensi sunt ab eo : colu onęlde sind from him.
OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 66 Pruna, gled. Carbo, coll.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 205 Ane hyeape of dyade coles.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) xvii. 10 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 148 (MED) Koles þat ware dounfalland Kindled ere ofe him glouand.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 11862 (MED) Heroude..sleeþ his leches deed as cole.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Niii/2 A Cole cold, carbo.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. i. 68 Starres, Starres, And all eyes else, dead coales . View more context for this quotation
1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. 26 He took a dead Coal from the Hearth, and with it drew the Face of him who had invited him.
1849 Dublin Univ. Mag. June 715/1 Whenever she leaves the house, she places the tongs across the cradle, and puts a quenched coal in the child's bib.
1863 Irish Temperance League Jrnl. Feb. 11/2 The father took in silence a dead coal from the hearth, and reached it to his daughter.
1915 Outing Mar. 752/2 Little remains of the soft wood logs that flamed so freely the night before but a few butts with charred ends and a scattered litter of black, dead coals.
1974 K. E. Woodiwiss Wolf & Dove xxv. 489 Soon there was a trail to follow, the cold coals of a campfire, the flattened grass where a maid might have rested.
2004 D. Smith Great Meals Dutch Oven Style 14 The coals can be saved until later... Simply relight the coals and they will work just fine.
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