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单词 goaf
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Definition of goaf in English:

goaf

(also goaft, gove)
noun ɡəʊf
  • 1A rick or stack of corn, straw, etc., in a barn. Also: the quantity of corn, straw, etc., stacked up and stored in one bay or division of a barn. Compare "hay-goaf", "mow". English regional (chiefly East Anglian) in later use. Now rare.

  • 2English regional (East Anglian). "to ride the goaf": to ride a horse on top of a goaf in order to compress it and make it more compact. Now chiefly historical.

noun ɡəʊf
English Regional, Northern Coal Mining
  • An empty space from which coal has been extracted in a longwall mine, sometimes filled with waste material.

Origin

Late Middle English; earliest use found in Promptorium Parvulorum. From early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic gólf floor, bay in a building, Old Swedish golf floor (Swedish golv floor, bay in a building), Old Danish gulv floor, bay in a building (Danish gulv floor, (regional) room, bay of a barn, barn)), further etymology uncertain<br>early 19th century; earliest use found in The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Origin unknown.

 
 

Definition of goaf in US English:

goaf

(also goaft, gove)
nounɡəʊf
  • 1A rick or stack of corn, straw, etc., in a barn. Also: the quantity of corn, straw, etc., stacked up and stored in one bay or division of a barn. Compare "hay-goaf", "mow". English regional (chiefly East Anglian) in later use. Now rare.

  • 2English regional (East Anglian). "to ride the goaf": to ride a horse on top of a goaf in order to compress it and make it more compact. Now chiefly historical.

nounɡəʊf
English Regional, Northern Coal Mining
  • An empty space from which coal has been extracted in a longwall mine, sometimes filled with waste material.

Origin

Late Middle English; earliest use found in Promptorium Parvulorum. From early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic gólf floor, bay in a building, Old Swedish golf floor (Swedish golv floor, bay in a building), Old Danish gulv floor, bay in a building (Danish gulv floor, (regional) room, bay of a barn, barn)), further etymology uncertain<br>early 19th century; earliest use found in The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Origin unknown.

 
 
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