| 词汇 | colliery |
| 释义 | colliery noun[ C ] uk /ˈkɒl.i.ə.ri/ us /ˈkɑːl.jɚ.i/ a coal mine and all the buildings, machines, etc. connected with it煤矿 Synonym pit Engineering - mining & quarrying anti-mine banksman beneficiation biomining coal coal miner coal mining coalface excavator extract mineral mining OPEC petrodollar pit pithead slag heap strip mining unworked workings His father was a very humble workman, who filled the position of fireman of the pumping-engine in use at the colliery, at three dollars a week. Lord Ashley's Bill was passed, prohibiting woman and child labour in mines and collieries. The colliery may close, but still the corn ripens, and extra wages are paid to the harvest men. The work put into the cellars of the colliery houses here was quite extraordinary. Two collieries, among the fields, waved their small white plumes of steam. colliery | Business Englishcolliery noun[ C ] NATURAL RESOURCES, PRODUCTION UKuk /ˈkɒljəri/us a mine from which coal is dug, and all the buildings, machines, etc. connected with it: The Earth Centre is built on the site of a former colliery. Examples of collierycolliery The men's rapid deterioration was attracting widespread concern in much the same way colliery explosions had in the first half of the nineteenth century. The loss of mine, machinery, and manpower in colliery explosions released a 'runaway train ' of social progress. And once opened, an average colliery had to employ between two hundred and five hundred men and boys. The operators and their champions in the legal profession did everything possible to deny responsibility for the wave of deaths and injuries in their collieries. By all accounts, the colliery venture turned out to be very profitable. Ventilation, too, was now to be entirely the responsibility of the colliery; a colliery could be closed down if the air was bad. Most of his paintings depict scenes from colliery life with moving, often brutal, realism. A self-taught artist, who worked in a colliery for only a short period, his experiences there were seared indelibly on his memory. Roseman argues that the colliery managers were restrained mainly by the political priorities of the mines' central co-ordination board. In the old days, an individual miner could save a few dollars, lease an outcrop from a landowner, drive his own drift, and become a colliery operator. Government had originally proposed to simply extend the jurisdiction of colliery regulation to the non-ferrous sectors, as they had done previously with ironstone, rather than enact fresh legislation. The colliery company have a gang of men at work on temporary remedial measures, and there appears to be no danger to life. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is hardly a colliery company in the country that is not working at least one day a week short, entirely due to this reason. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We want information as to the position of the whole of the collieries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have a colliery in the same district where the men have been receiving unemployment benefit for 13 weeks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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