| 单词 | spoil-earth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspoil-earth a. attributive and in other combinations, chiefly in sense 10, as spoil-earth, spoil-ground, spoil-heap, spoil tip, etc.; also, in sense 1, spoil-hunting adj., spoil-taker. See also spoil bank n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > mining refuse or rubbish rough1677 old man1747 small1778 stent1778 vestry1784 gobbin1811 spoil1838 stowing1860 dump1865 muck1883 spoil-heap1883 mine-dump1909 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > [noun] > mining refuse or rubbish > tip for spoil tip1967 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxv. viii. 274 The Romans..when they had..driven away the Saracen spoyle-takers [etc.]. 1851 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad iv. 67 The spoil-hunting daughter of Jove..averted the deadly weapon. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 232 Spoil-bank or Spoil-heap, the place on the surface where spoil is deposited. 1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 36 A quarry—a very old one, judging by the many large heaps of spoil-earth..over which grass had grown. 1927 F. B. Young Portrait of Clare i. iii. 34 The black dome of the Mawne Road spoil-heap fell away on her left into the tree-softened contours of Mawne Bank. 1967 Times Rev. Industry May 58/1 Around it [sc. Doncaster] stretches a flat, ill-drained corner of Yorkshire's West Riding, pockmarked with colliery spoil tips. 1972 Times 4 July 3/2 A devastated landscape of abandoned slurry ponds and spoil tips. 1973 Times 18 May 4/5 Above them towered the 300ft Eppleston spoilheap, started in the 1820s and at its peak containing well over 1,500,000 tons of red shale, dwarfing the houses. < as lemmas |
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