| 单词 | hard-rock man |
| 释义 | > as lemmashard-rock man 1. Originally and chiefly North American. Originally: designating a miner engaged in or skilled at working hard (typically igneous or metamorphic) rock as distinct from coal or sedimentary deposits; (also) designating mining of this kind. Later more generally: designating a labourer experienced in or capable of heavy work with rock (in tunnelling, construction work, etc.); relating to or involving such work. Esp. in hard-rock man, hard-rock miner. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [adjective] > types of streaming1778 off-handed1846 offhand1849 hard rock1890 1890 Los Angeles Times 29 Oct. 1/2 Wanted..good hard-rock miner. 1906 A. C. Spencer Juneau Gold Belt, Alaska 3 The development of hard-rock mining on the Treadwell property was greatly hindered by placer miners, who..washed gold from the decomposed outcrops. 1910 Logansport (Indiana) Chron. 17 Sept. 8/4 Twenty-eight hard-rock men..were removing the mountain of stone above the tunnels to transform them into open cuts. 1921 Lethbridge (Alberta) Daily Herald 23 Nov. 9/5 Mr. Russell has the part of ‘Brute’, who bosses the hard rock construction men with his bare fists. 1949 Chicago Daily News 9 Apr. 1/6 A machinist drilling with a crew of hardrock miners 75 feet below the surface. 1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) iv. ii. 392 That day there were six of us in our ‘pare’, or working party, Trevose and I and four ‘hard-rock’ men. 2004 B. H. G. Brady & E. T. Brown Rock Mech. for Underground Mining (ed. 3) xii. 364 Longwall mining in coal seams follows a somewhat different principle from that employed in hard-rock mining. 2013 Spokesman Rev. (Spokane, Washington) (Nexis) 13 July a6 Twenty coal miners and 16 hard-rock miners died in work-related accidents last year. < as lemmas |
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