| 单词 | live work |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslive work live work n. Mining rare the part of mining concerned with the actual extraction and processing of ore; contrasted with dead-work n. 2; cf. also quick adj. 10a. ΚΠ 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 148 We might distinguish these two kinds of work as dead and live work—the dead being that which proceeds in the dead rock, and the live that which is concerned in extracting and pulverizing the ores. 2005 I. Blanchard Mining, Metall. & Minting in Middle Ages III. xiv. 1629 At the pit each miner in the ‘gang’ worked for about 240 days a year, excavating when fully employed on ‘live’ work some four loads of ore. < as lemmas |
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