Coal

[kəʊl] or [kol]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.

(verb.) take in coal; 'The big ship coaled'.

(verb.) supply with coal.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

(n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.

(v. t.) To burn to charcoal; to char.

(v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal.

(v. t.) To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.

(v. i.) To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.

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解釋/意思:

n. a solid black combustible substance used for fuel dug out of the earth: cinder.—v.i. to take in coal.—v.t. to supply with coal.—n. Coal′-bed a stratum of coal.—adj. Coal′-black black as coal very black.—ns. Coal′-box a box for holding coal; Coal′-brass a name applied to the pyrites in the coal-measures; Coal′field a field or district containing coal strata; Coal′-fish a fish of the cod family so named from the black colour of its back; Coal′-gas the mixture of gases produced by the destructive distillation of coal chiefly carburetted hydrogen—giving the gaslight in common use; Coal′-heav′er one employed in carrying coal; Coal′-house a covered-in place for keeping coal; Coal′man one who has to do with coals; Coal′-mas′ter the owner or lessee of a coalfield; Coal′-meas′ure a measure by which the quantity of coal is ascertained: (pl.) the group of carboniferous strata in which coal is found (geol.); Coal′-mine Coal′-pit a pit or mine from which coal is dug; Coal′-own′er one who owns a colliery; Coal′-plant a fossil plant of the carboniferous strata; Coal′-scutt′le a vessel for holding coal; Coal′-tar or Gas-tar a thick black opaque liquid which condenses in the pipes when coal or petroleum is distilled; Coal′-trim′mer one who stores or shifts coal on board vessels; Coal′-whip′per one employed in unloading coal from vessels at anchor to barges which convey it to the wharves.—adj. Coal′y of or like coal.—Coaling station a port at which steamships take in coal; Coal-scuttle bonnet a woman's bonnet shaped like a coal-scuttle upside down.—Blind or Anthracite coal that which does not flame when kindled; Bituminous coal that which does; Brown coal (see Brown); Caking coal a bituminous coal which cakes or fuses into one mass in the fire; Cannel or Parrot coal (see Cannel); Cherry or Soft coal coal breaking off easily into small irregular cubes having beautiful shining lustre; Splint Hard or Block coal plentiful in Scotland hard breaking into cuboidal blocks.—Blow the coals to excite passion; Carry coals to Newcastle to take a thing where it is least needed; Haul over the coals reprimand—from the discipline applied to heretics; Heap coals of fire on the head to excite remorse by returning good for evil (Rom. xii. 20).

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