单词 | ganister |
释义 | ganistern. A close-grained siliceous stone from the lower coal-measures in Yorkshire, ground down to form furnace-hearths, etc. (See also quot. 1881.) Also attributive and in other combinations. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > gritstone millstone grit1682 galliard1781 ganister1811 1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 179–80 The immediate floor of every coal seam within all this large district is..a peculiar kind of hard stone, called Crowstone or Ganister. 1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 53 Crowstone or ganister. 1845 J. Phillips & C. G. B. Daubeny Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 587/2 The ganister or calliard rocks of the coal strata. 1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. 191 Ganister measures. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 136 Ganister, a mixture of ground quartz and fire-clay, used in lining Bessemer converters. 1883 Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. 8 158 Alderman Clark noticed..among broken gannester, what seemed a curious stone. 1889 Q. Rev. July 142 The lining used was Sheffield ganister. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 107 The ganister lining of the converter is replaced by bricks of magnesian limestone. 1902 Daily Chron. 12 May 3/1 Ganister crushing. 1956 W. Edwards in D. L. Linton Sheffield 13 Only the Soft Bed and Ganister Coal are locally fit to work. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1811 |
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