| 单词 | purgatory hole |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspurgatory hole purgatory hole n. see sense 6. purgatory hole 6. English regional (chiefly west midlands). A space beneath a fireplace covered with a grating, into which the ashes and cinders fall (also purgatory hole); (also) the grating itself. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > grate grate1605 fire grate1620 purgatory1707 stove-grate1730 stovea1756 ash-grate1833 basket-grate1889 well-fire1895 well grate1898 hob-grate1915 combination grate1940 1707 in M. Wanklyn Inventories Worcs. Landed Gentry, 1537–1786 (1998) 336 An iron purgatory. 1747 in B. Trinder & J. Cox Yeomen & Colliers Telford 1660–1750 (1980) 191 One Cast Iron Purgatory plate. 1866 Mrs. H. Wood Elster's Folly iii The ‘purgatory’ in Mr. Jabez Gum's kitchen consisted of a hole, two feet square, under the hearth, covered with a grating, through which the ashes and the small cinders fell. 1895 T. Pinnock Black Country Ann. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 650/2 What bad luck to drap yer weddin ring in the purgatory hole. 1897 R. M. Gilchrist Peakland Faggot ii. 20 Et's onpossible, wi' them purgatories on th' harstone, to keep ashes fro' flyin. 1927 Observer 14 Aug. 11/7 The strange use of the word ‘purgatory’..—in the sense of the recess under the fire for receiving ashes—has good warrant. It seems to be—or to have been—local to the Midlands. 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 90 Purgatory, ashpan under an open grate. < as lemmas |
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