单词 | yellow share |
释义 | † yellow sharen. English regional (Staffordshire). Founding. Obsolete. A low-quality form of iron ore, presumably yellowish in colour, which is unsuitable for smelting. Cf. redshire adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > iron ore > others bloodstone1504 haematite1543 yellow share1590 keel1596 brush-ore1678 mush1686 brush-iron-ore1695 iron glance1792 specular iron (also iron ore)1796 steel-ore1796 oligistc1803 black band1811 old man1811 spathose iron-ore1823 pitticite1826 siderose1834 blink klip1835 pharmacosiderite1835 sphaerosiderite1837 fossil ore1846 jacutinga1846 vignite1846 siderite1848 junckerite1865 needle iron-ore1867 xanthosiderite1868 specularite1892 pitch ore1896 minette1902 taconite1905 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). < n.1590 |
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