| 单词 | pit-heap |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspit-heap pit-heap n. a heap of excavated material near the mouth of a mine shaft; (hence) the whole of the surface works of a coal mine (cf. heap-stead at heap n. Compounds). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > surface works opencast?a1650 openwork1665 pit-heap1769 grass work1828 paddock1852 1769 W. Sharp Treat. Coal-mines 12 A man who..buys coal at the pit-heap for two-pence halfpenny or three pence a bushel. 1822 T. Bewick Mem. (1975) iii. 25 All who now crouded the Pit heap or surrounded its mouth. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Pit Heap, see Heapstead... The entire surface works about a colliery shaft. 1976 Jrnl. (Newcastle) 26 Nov. 1/1 The lorries would be carrying shale from the massive pitheap at Pegswood for the new coal disposal point at Butterwell. < as lemmas |
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