| 单词 | moss pit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoss pit moss pit n. [earliest attested in a place name] now chiefly historical ΚΠ 1501 in J. M. Dodgson Place-names Cheshire (1970) I. 206 Lez mospittes. c1510 Reg. Burrough (P.R.O.) lf. v. b Hey hille lyes betwix the scharthe Hylle and Mosse pyttes. 1773 Dumfries Weekly Mag. 19 Oct. 191 And on Wednesday last, a labouring man..unluckily fell into a moss pit and perished. 1845 New Monthly Mag. 74 ii. 419 They attempted to proceed, and went floundering into moss-pit after moss-pit. ?1982 G. Atkinson Canal Duke's Collieries 41/1 Cast iron tubbing to line shafts had been introduced at Lords Moss pit in 1868. < as lemmas |
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