| 单词 | spoil-heap | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasspoil-heap  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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