| 单词 | shaft-sinker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshaft-sinker C1. simple attributive, as shaft ladder, shaft mouth, shaft work, etc.; shaft sinking n. Also objective, as shaft-sinker. ΚΠ 1844 F. W. Simms (title) Practical tunnelling, explaining in detail..shaft sinking, and heading driving. 1862 Times 21 Jan. Mr. Coulson..has had vast experience in shaft work. c1868 C. Warren Recov. Jerus. (1871) 128 The shaft mouth is on the south side of the Sanctuary wall. 1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 239 They started to descend the shaft-ladders. 1922 D. H. Lawrence Aaron's Rod (N.Y. ed.) vii. 70 His father had been a shaft-sinker. < as lemmas |
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