单词 | Wallsend |
释义 | Wallsend|ˈwɔːlzɛnd, ˌwɔːlzˈɛnd| The name of a town in Northumberland, so called from its situation at the end of the Roman wall. Used attrib. (and ellipt. as n.), originally as the designation of coal obtained from a local seam now exhausted; subsequently as the trade name for coal of a certain quality, and in pieces too large to pass through a sieve with meshes 5/8 inch in diameter.
1821Times 23 Jan. 1/4 Coals 46s..warranted Wallsend, 50s. superior. 1827Hone Every-day Bk. II. 24 Wallsends are rising in price. 1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Mr. Watkins Tottle i, Three tons of the best Walls-end. 1897Ainger in Edith Sichel Life & Lett. (1906) 289, I have a pound or two of best Walls⁓end wandering about in my Bronchial cavities. |

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