| 单词 | standing buddle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstanding buddle standing buddle n. Mining (now historical) a shallow inclined vat filled with water and used to sort and clean ore. Opposed to running buddle: see running buddle n. at running adj. Compounds 3b. ΚΠ 1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 373 Sometimes the washing is performed in a square wooden trough,called a Standing-buddle. 1980 L. Willies Techn. & Organisational Devel. Derbyshire Lead Mining Industry (Ph.D. diss., Columbia Univ.) 164 It was cleansed by the swillers, either by a flow of water, or a vat (standing buddle), in which the material was either contained in a sieve, or held on a shovel. < as lemmas |
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