| 单词 | rolley-driver |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrolley-driver C1. Mining. General attributive, as rolley-driver, rolley-horse, rolley-road, rolley-way, etc. Now historical. ΚΠ 1817Rolley-way [see sense 1]. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 982 The rolley driver, with his horse, takes them to the bottom of the engine-shaft. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 982 The rolley horses have a peculiar kind of shafts. 1905 R. W. Moore in J. Wilson Victoria Hist. Cumberland II. 353/2 Where the rolley-road was long there were stages at which there were sidings or pass-byes. 1913 Times 1 Dec. 24/5 At about 5.45 more of the rolley-way men and engine-plane men go down [into the mine]. 1999 Northern Echo (Nexis) 24 Feb. 6 Before they were ten, they would be working with the pit ponies; by 13 they would be rolley-drivers. < as lemmas |
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