| 单词 | egg coal |
| 释义 | > as lemmasegg coal b. In full egg coal: see quots. Originally U.S. ΚΠ 1855 Santa Barbara (Calif.) Gaz. 22 Nov. 1/5 The attempt to make omelets out of ‘egg’ coal has been abandoned. 1880 Bradstreet's 2 Oct. 5/4 The sizes used are ‘lump’, ‘steamboat’, ‘broken’, and ‘pea’; while for family use the sizes are ‘egg’, ‘stove’ and ‘nut’. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 130 Egg-Coal, Pennsylvania. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 501/2 The market sizes being designated egg, stove, chestnut, pea, and buckwheat. 1900 Coal & Metal Miners' Pocketbk. (ed. 6) 434 Egg passes over 2″ mesh, and through 2¾″ mesh. 1900 Coal & Metal Miners' Pocketbk. (ed. 6) 585 Egg coal, anthracite coal that will pass through a 2¾″ square mesh and over a 2″ square mesh. 1924 A. T. Shurick Coal Industry 144 The broken coal..is again screened into egg, stove, and nut coal. 1970 F. McKenna Gloss. Railwaymen's Talk 35 Eggs, ovoid briquettes, made of coal dust and cement dust, used during coal shortage. < as lemmas |
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