| 单词 | loose-all |
| 释义 | > as lemmasloose-all 12. passive and intransitive. To finish working; (of a school, factory, etc.) to close, disperse, ‘break up’. Also in loose-all, the signal to stop work given in the pits. dialect. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > signal to stop work loose-all1911 1822 R. Wilson Poems 1 Ploughman chields lows'd frae their wark. 1829 J. Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. vi. 151 He wad hear it [a song] every day when the school looses. 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 35 Loose (‘Lowse’)!, finish working! 1893 J. K. Snowden Tales Yorks. Wolds 110 One Sunday afternoon just as the chapel had ‘loosed’. 1911 D. H. Lawrence White Peacock iii. vii. 485 I heard the far-off hooting of the ‘loose-all’ at the pits, telling me it was half-past eleven. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers ii. 30 Some men were there before four o'clock, when the whistle blew loose-all. < as lemmas |
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