| 单词 | choke-damp |
| 释义 | choke-damp|ˈtʃəʊkˌdæmp|
[f. choke- + damp.]
A miner's term for the carbonic acid gas (or air largely mixed therewith) which accumulates in old workings in coal-pits, and at the bottom of wells, quarries, and caves; after an explosion in a coal-mine, it often rises and mingling with the remaining nitrogen, steam, smoke and dust, constitutes the after-damp, which suffocates the survivors from the deflagration of the fire-damp.
[1642see choke v. 2.]
1741Brownrigg in Phil. Trans. LV. 240 The choak-damp, or stith, found in the coal-mines. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. I. xi. 482 This [carbonic acid] gas, or air, is often found to occupy the lower parts of mines. It is called the choke-damp by the miners. 1812J. Hodgson in Raine Mem. (1857) I. 97 This after-damp is called choak-damp and surfeit by the colliers. 1871Hartwig Subterr. W. xxiii. 278 The choke-damp, or black-damp, the name given by the miners to carbonic acid gas. 1878L. P. Meredith Teeth 192 By lowering the patient into the choke-damp of a well. 1886Pall Mall G. 27 Sept. 10/1 The officials, realizing that the catastrophe was due to choke-damp, called to the visitors to run.
fig.1873F. Hall Mod. English 18 Stifled by the choke-damp of folly. |
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