† breast-heen.

Forms:

α. 1800s breast-hee.

β. Yorkshire 1800s brestye, 1800s briestye.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English breast-hee , breast-high adj.

Etymology: < breast-hee (adjective), north-western variant of breast-high adj.In the β. forms apparently with folk-etymological alteration of the second element after regional forms of eye n.¹

English regional (northern). Mining. Obsolete.

A tunnel or horizontal entrance into a coal-mine which is so low that a miner has to stoop to enter.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > other passages in coal-mine

head1486

room1670

headway1708

breast-hee1850

gate-road1860

stall gate1883

1850 S. Bamford Dial. S. Lancs. Introd. 3 The collier then brought his coal to day-light at the mouth of a tunnel..called a ‘breast-hee’, generally opening out not unlike a large black sough, on some hill-side.

1855 E. Waugh Sketches Lancs. Life 36 At the mouth of a lonely ‘breast-hee’ on his native moor-side.

1879 E. Waugh Chimney Corner 244 An' then he took me up one street, an' down another, till we coom to th' end of a ginnel 'at looked as dark as a breast-hee coal-pit.

1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Brestye or Briestye, of a coal-pit; called also the dayhole, e'ehoil, i.e. eyehole. It is the place where the coals are brought out in scoops or waggons.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020).

单词	breast-hee
释义	† breast-heen. Forms: α. 1800s breast-hee. β. Yorkshire 1800s brestye, 1800s briestye. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English breast-hee , breast-high adj. Etymology: < breast-hee (adjective), north-western variant of breast-high adj.In the β. forms apparently with folk-etymological alteration of the second element after regional forms of eye n.¹ English regional (northern). Mining. Obsolete. A tunnel or horizontal entrance into a coal-mine which is so low that a miner has to stoop to enter. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > passage > other passages in coal-mine head1486 room1670 headway1708 breast-hee1850 gate-road1860 stall gate1883 1850 S. Bamford Dial. S. Lancs. Introd. 3 The collier then brought his coal to day-light at the mouth of a tunnel..called a ‘breast-hee’, generally opening out not unlike a large black sough, on some hill-side. 1855 E. Waugh Sketches Lancs. Life 36 At the mouth of a lonely ‘breast-hee’ on his native moor-side. 1879 E. Waugh Chimney Corner 244 An' then he took me up one street, an' down another, till we coom to th' end of a ginnel 'at looked as dark as a breast-hee coal-pit. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Brestye or Briestye, of a coal-pit; called also the dayhole, e'ehoil, i.e. eyehole. It is the place where the coals are brought out in scoops or waggons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020). < n.1850
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