| 单词 | pit charcoal |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspit charcoal a. The black porous pulverizable substance, consisting (when pure) wholly of carbon, obtained as the solid residue in the imperfect combustion of wood, bones, and other vegetable or animal matter. Hence specified as animal charcoal, wood charcoal; vegetable charcoal. †pit charcoal, coke (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > charcoal > [noun] coalOE charcoalc1400 lind-coal14.. black coal1525 small coal1591 beech-coal1607 sallow charcoal1615 brier-coal1626 wood-coal1653 withy-cole1657 chark1708 vegetable ethiops1752 biochar1995 society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > coke coke1669 cinder1703 pit charcoal1771 gleed1853 breeze1875 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 875 A cheyer by-fore þe chemne, þer charcole brenned. c1420 Anturs of Arth. xxxv A schimnay of charcole, to chaufen the knyȝte. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 69 Charcole [Pynson charkole], carbo. 1470–1 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 216 Ij skeppis carbonum vocatorum charcole. 1514 Acc. Churchw. St. Dunstan's Canterb. in Archæol. Cantiana XVII. 79 Item for ij quarters of charecole. 1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 4 §6 Working..of any..Stone, Sea cole, stone cole, Moore cole or cherke cole. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. x. 85 Victuall, and some Char-coale for a fire. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §775 Sea-coal last longer than Char-coal; and Char-coal of Roots, being coaled into great pieces, last longer than ordinary Char-coal. 1656 H. More Enthusiasmus Triumphatus 26 The fumes of Charcoale, that has often made men fall down dead. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. §5 A picture drawn in Charcoale. 1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 214 The inside of all pieces of pit char~coal is full of cavities. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 755 Animal charcoal is a much more powerful discolouring principle than vegetable charcoal. 1863 H. W. Longfellow Musician's Tale ix. ix, in Tales Wayside Inn 109 A figure in shovel hat, Drawn in charcoal on the wall. 1865 W. S. Jevons Coal Quest. (ed. 2) 299 Until the middle of the last century, however, iron was always made with charcoal, and a woody country was necessarily its seat. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 764 Animal charcoal especially..has been much employed in the construction of filters. < as lemmas |
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