单词 | black coal |
释义 | black coaln.ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > charcoal > [noun] coalOE charcoalc1400 lind-coal14.. black coal1525 small coal1591 beech-coal1607 sallow charcoal1615 brier-coal1626 wood-coal1653 withy-cole1657 chark1708 vegetable ethiops1752 biochar1995 the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > black thing or matter > [noun] > black mark black coal1525 blot1578 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] > censure or condemnation > mark of black coal1525 theta1603 note1605 black mark1624 demerit mark1862 strike1938 1525 tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Vertuous Handy Warke Surg. sig. R.iv/1 Yf he be a pore man, than gyue hym blacke coles of elme wode, eyes of kreeffysshe, leues of charuyll [etc.]. ?1548 A. Gilby Answer Deuillish Detection S. Gardiner f. clxxiiii So..sinered with the blacke coles of theyr helly doctrine, that theyr soules should neuer be cleare againe. 1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Hiiiv Then must he with the blacke Coole of his censure condemne those men. 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Biij He giues the Englishe a dash ouer the face with a blacke coale, and saith: Traistre Angloi. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (i. 10) 216 With the black coales of enuious and slanderous inuectiues striuing to besmeare them. 1672 C. Wyvill Pretensions Triple Crown 70 But for this, Friar Pedro has mark'd them with the black coal of parcel Heresie. 1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 113 The Oare is melted with black and white Coal: i.e. With Charcoal and wood slit into small pieces. 1701 J. Smith Art of Painting in Oyl (ed. 3) ii. 18 Waste fragments of Ivory..are burnt or charred to a black Coal in a Crucible close stopt up. 1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. vii. 299 Take any animal matters..and convert them into a black coal, by heating them. 1845 Chem. Gaz. 31 May 238 As soon as boiling begins, the mass takes fire spontaneously and burns away, diffusing thick vapours, and leaving a black coal of great lustre. 2. A kind of coal of a deep black colour; spec. bituminous coal or anthracite, as opposed to brown coal. Cf. coal n. 4a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] coal1253 sea-coal1253 pit-coal1483 cannel1541 earth coala1552 horse coal1552 Newcastle coal1552 stone-coal1585 cannel coal1587 parrot1594 burn-coal1597 lithanthrax1612 stony coal1617 Welsh coala1618 land-coala1661 foot coal1665 peacock coal1686 rough coal1686 white coal1686 heathen-coalc1697 coal-stone1708 round1708 stone-coal1708 bench-coal1712 slipper coal1712 black coal1713 culm1742 rock coal1750 board coal1761 Bovey coal1761 house coal1784 mineral coal1785 splint1789 splint coal1789 jet coal1794 anthracite1797 wood-coal1799 blind-coal1802 black diamond1803 silk-coal1803 glance-coal1805 lignite1808 Welsh stone-coal1808 soft1811 spout coals1821 spouter1821 Wallsend1821 brown coal1833 paper coal1833 steam-coal1850 peat-coal1851 cherry-coal1853 household1854 sinter coal1854 oil coal1856 raker1857 Kilkenny coal1861 Pottery coal1867 silkstone1867 block coal1871 admiralty1877 rattlejack1877 bunker1883 fusain1883 smitham1883 bunker coal1885 triping1886 trolley coal1890 kibble1891 sea-borne1892 jet1893 steam1897 sack coal1898 Welsh1898 navigation coal1900 Coalite1906 clarain1919 durain1919 vitrain1919 single1921 kolm1930 hards1956 1713 Rep. Blairingon Coal in Atholl MSS in Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) They measured the Coall and finds that it is exactly 17 Inches thick of a black Coall and tuo Inches above wall of a parrot Coall. 1805 R. Jameson Mineral. Descr. County of Dumfries 179 Werner divides coal into two species, a. brown coal, and b. black coal. The black coal includes all the subspecies of coal which are found in the independent coal formation in Great Britain &c. 1878 P. H. Lawrence tr. B. von Cotta Rocks Classified (new ed.) 321 Brown coal..differs from ordinary black coal in containing a much greater proportion of bitumen. 1958 I. C. F. Statham Coal Mining Pract. (1960) I. ii. 77 Practically all black coals, such as are worked in British coalfields, show banding of soft bright and hard dull coal..parallel to the bedding. 1984 J. F. Helliwell in R. E. Caves & L. B. Krause Austral. Econ. 98 Another major element of the projected 1980s minerals investment is black coal for export, about half from New South Wales and half from Queensland. 2000 F. E. Banks Energy Econ. v. 117 Still another system divides coal into black coal, which ranges from subbituminous to anthracite coal.., and brown coal. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > coal > other types of coal peacock coal1686 bone1817 paper coal1833 red ash1836 oil coal1856 rattlejack1877 fusain1883 black coal1887 clarain1919 vitrain1919 1887 N.E.D. at Coal sb. Black coal, (Sc.), a fine sort of cannel coal or jet used by carpenters and masons to mark on wood and stone. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmasblack coal b. A burnt or partially burnt piece of carbonized fuel which is not now glowing or burning; esp. a partially consumed piece of fuel that retains sufficient carbon to be capable of further combustion. Chiefly with distinguishing word, as dead coal, black coal, etc. Cf. as black as coal at Phrases 1.In early use frequently difficult to distinguish from sense 1c; see also note at sense 1a.With quot. OE compare Isidore Origines 19. 6. 7 (the probable source): pruna est quamdiu ardet; quum autem extincta fuerit, carbo nominatur ‘it is pruna for as long as it is burning; but when it has gone out it is called carbo’. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > cinder coaleOE cinder1530 ghost1807 ghost-coal1824 eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) xvii. 9 Carbones succensi sunt ab eo : colu onęlde sind from him. OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 66 Pruna, gled. Carbo, coll. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 205 Ane hyeape of dyade coles. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) xvii. 10 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 148 (MED) Koles þat ware dounfalland Kindled ere ofe him glouand. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 11862 (MED) Heroude..sleeþ his leches deed as cole. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Niii/2 A Cole cold, carbo. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. i. 68 Starres, Starres, And all eyes else, dead coales . View more context for this quotation 1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. 26 He took a dead Coal from the Hearth, and with it drew the Face of him who had invited him. 1849 Dublin Univ. Mag. June 715/1 Whenever she leaves the house, she places the tongs across the cradle, and puts a quenched coal in the child's bib. 1863 Irish Temperance League Jrnl. Feb. 11/2 The father took in silence a dead coal from the hearth, and reached it to his daughter. 1915 Outing Mar. 752/2 Little remains of the soft wood logs that flamed so freely the night before but a few butts with charred ends and a scattered litter of black, dead coals. 1974 K. E. Woodiwiss Wolf & Dove xxv. 489 Soon there was a trail to follow, the cold coals of a campfire, the flattened grass where a maid might have rested. 2004 D. Smith Great Meals Dutch Oven Style 14 The coals can be saved until later... Simply relight the coals and they will work just fine. < n.1525 as lemmas |
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