| 单词 | soot house |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoot house soot house n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > others coal pitOE wireworks1598 alum works1617 copperas-worka1661 saltpetre house1683 nailery1802 railworks1863 lockworks1864 sulphur-work1870 tack-mill1884 pitch-boilery1885 rubber plant1886 soot house1957 1957 E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways ix. 120 The soot~houses..whose roofs..were stripped in spring in the days when the whole family migrated to the summer pastures. At any rate the soot-house season runs from October to May... In the Hebrides it was customary to strip the soot-laden thatch of the black-houses annually for use as manure, and the roof was left without a smoke-hole to encourage the deposit of soot. 1966 Daily Tel. 21 Apr. 4/7 On Achill Island off the west coast of Ireland are the remains of some small buildings... They are called ‘soot houses’ and were used for the production of soot for fertilising the potato crop. < as lemmas |
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