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单词 yellow share
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yellow sharen.

Forms: 1500s yellow shire, 1600s yellow shear, 1600s–1700s yellow share.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., English coldshare , cold-short adj.
Etymology: Probably < yellow adj. + -share , -shire (in coldshare, coldshire, variants of cold-short adj.). Compare redshire adj.
English regional (Staffordshire). Founding. Obsolete.
A low-quality form of iron ore, presumably yellowish in colour, which is unsuitable for smelting. Cf. redshire adj.
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1590 Rep. Iron Woorkes Canck in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1978) 93 798 First, ironstone, wherof there bee 4 kindes: 1. Tough Metall, 2. Colshire, 3. Redshire, 4. Yellowshire... Yellowshire is the worst for that it will abide the woorking in noe heate.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 160 The first and meanest whereof [sc. Iron Ore], they call yellow share an ill sort that runs all to dirt and is good for nothing..this sort some others are please'd to call Redshare.
1730 Magna Britannia V. 56/2 Here is a Sort of Iron Ore found, which the Workmen call the Yellow-Share.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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