单词 | recoal |
释义 | recoalv. 1. transitive. To supply with fresh coal. Chiefly in passive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > search for coal [verb (intransitive)] > take in a supply of coal > of a steamship recoal1842 1842 Times 20 Dec. 3/5 The Atlantic outward bound steamer shall, immediately on her arrival at St. Thomas, be re-coaled. 1887 R. A. Proctor Chance & Luck 212 My fire, which in the meantime must very nearly have gone out, had been recoaled. 1916 Christian Sci. Monitor 5 June 1/7 A couple of hours after returning to port all British vessels engaged were recoaled and ready again for action. 1978 T. Willis Buckingham Palace Connection viii. 155 The Royal Flush [sc. a steam locomotive] had been re-coaled and watered and was ready to leave. 1991 High Life (Brit. Airways) May 51/4 Ships had to be re-coaled and re-supplied at Alexandria. 2. intransitive. Esp. of a steamship: to take in a fresh supply of coal. ΚΠ 1845 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 7 May 266/2 The packet returns to Vera Cruz and Havannah. Here she recoals, then proceeds to..Bermuda. 1872 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 3 414 After leaving here, in about one week we will reach St. John's, and spend some three or four days there recoaling. 1901 Science 16 Aug. 272/1 The steamer Zaria..has just arrived at that place to re-coal. 1949 Mariner's Mirror 35 72 She recoaled at Kinsale and steamed on to Liverpool. 2005 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 27 Feb. i26 The stark, glacier-shorn peaks of The Remarkables silently watch as the Earnslaw re-coals. Derivatives reˈcoaling n. ΚΠ 1853 Mechanics' Mag. 10 Dec. 467/2 It was stated a large steamer was intended to run to India..without re-coaling. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Nov. 5/1 The necessity for frequent recoaling seriously reduces her speed. 1995 Archivist No. 108. 6/2 The recoaling station for the French steam-driven vessels in the nineteenth century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1842 |
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