| 单词 | house of water |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse of water house of water n. now rare (chiefly in Cornish tin mining) a hidden reservoir in a mine, usually an abandoned working that has filled with water; frequently in to hole to a (or the) house of water. ΚΠ 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis iii. ii. 168 They have unexpectedly holed to the house of water, before they thought themselves near to it, and instantly perished. 1868 R. M. Ballantyne Deep Down (1869) xvii. 216 To the memory of James, aged 20, and John, aged 15 years..who were drowned..by the holing to a house of water in North Levant Mine. 1893 T. J. Foster Coal & Metal Miners' Pocket-bk. (rev. ed.) 53 In this way there will be no danger of running into ‘a house of water’, as the Cornish miners call it. 1947 H. Innes Killer Mine vi. 148 Sometimes when you reach the house of water and the drill comes out with a gush of water pouring from the drill hole, the whole face of the adit collapses. < as lemmas |
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