单词 | pit engine |
释义 | > as lemmaspit engine pit engine n. ΚΠ 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede i. i. 53 Look at the canals, an' th' aqueducs, an' th' coal-pit engines, and Arkwright's mills.] 1862 Times 9 Jan. 9/6 No. 2 [boiler] was in working order, driving the pit engine. 1962 Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. 17 89 A local colliery-hand who had helped his father to stoke the pit-engine. 1998 Sunday Times (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Features section) He cared just as much for the saddle-tanks, the grimy pit engines that nobody bothered about at all. < as lemmas |
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