| 单词 | coal scuttle |
| 释义 | coal scuttle (once / 101020 pages) n A coal scuttle is a box or bin that coal is kept in. It's uncommon today, but when homes were often heated with coal fires, the extra coal would be kept in a coal scuttle near the stove. Long ago, it wasn't unusual to add coal from a coal scuttle to a fire that warmed your home. When trains ran on coal, they needed constant burning fires and a coal scuttle from which stokers could feed them. As coal fuel becomes less common, coal scuttles are also increasingly unusual. The scuttle part of the word comes from the Old English scutel, "dish or platter," from the Latin scutella, "serving platter." WORD FAMILYcoal scuttle: coal scuttles USAGE EXAMPLESShe tells me to start the fire in the range, that there’s paper and wood in a box and coal in the coal scuttle. Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir(1996) "Looks like a giant coal scuttle, sir," said Carrick the trite. Brinton, Davis, Trusia—A Princess of Krovitch(2010) When your coal scuttle is empty, and your gas ration exhausted—coffee house! Ukers, William H. (William Harrison), All About Coffee(2010) n container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire Syn|Hyper scuttle container any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) |
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