seacoal

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Coal from the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches. uncountable
    — John Thompson of Setauket has a permit to go to Flushing and other parts of Long Island to search for sea-coal, of which he hath probable information.
  2. Coal from across the sea: mineral coal, as opposed to charcoal, in a time and place in which the former arrived by ship and the latter arrived overland (such as London in Elizabethan times). Southern-England,historical,uncountable
    — […] and then of Sea-Coal and other necessary Fewel, fit for the working or melting of these Metalls; […]
  3. Coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives. US,historical,uncountable
  4. Coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.; Such coal used in foundry practice, intermixed with foundry sand or applied in a layer on its face, to modify the behavior of the molten metal. US,historical,uncountable

词形变化

sea coal alternative sea-coal alternative

词源

From sea + coal.
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