单词 | coal-heugh |
释义 | ˈcoal-heugh, -hew Sc. Also 6–7 -heuch(e, 8 -hugh. [f. coal + heugh.] A coal-pit: perh. originally one open to the surface or excavated in the side of a slope or bank.
1592Sc. Acts, 12 Jas. VI (1597) §146 The wicked crime of setting of fire in Coal-heuches. 1653R. Baillie Disswasive Vind. (1655) 21 This, to me, was but to move from one errour to another, from the lime-pit to the coal-heugh. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. v. (1743) 412 Firing Colehughs. 1725Strachey in Phil. Trans. XXXIII. 397 They land it (as at many Coalhews in the Country) on Girls Backs. 1822Scott Pirate v, Wherefore should not a coal-heugh be found out in Zetland as well as in Fife? 1879H. George Progr. & Pov. ix. iv. (1881) 422 Had Dr. Adam Smith been born in the coal-hews. |

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