| 单词 | dead coal | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasdead 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’. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > 			[noun]		 > cinder coaleOE cinder1530 ghost1807 ghost-coal1824 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. < as lemmas | 
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