seacoal

既定 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

名詞

不可算名詞 イングランド南部方言 歴史的 アメリカ英語

Coal from inside the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches, from which it can be collected and sold.

日本語の意味

海水から流れ出し、海岸に打ち上げられる自然の石炭。鉱物として採取され、販売の対象となる石炭。

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Local residents collected seacoal from the beach after the storm and sold it to a nearby factory.

嵐の後、地元の住民は海岸に打ち上げられた石炭を集め、近くの工場に売りました。

詳細

意味（1）

Coal from inside the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches, from which it can be collected and sold.

意味（2）

(historical, chiefly Southern England) 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).

意味（3）

1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 49:

[…] and then of Sea-Coal and other necessary Fewel, fit for the working or melting of these Metalls; […]

詳細

意味（4）

2020, Ruth Goodman, The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal Into Victorian Homes Changed Everything, Liveright, →ISBN, page xvii:

意味（5）

And the change came fast. In 1570 there was still little sign of any major divergence from the traditional use of wood as fuel. Less than forty years later, in 1607, a case brought by the Crown in the Star Chamber stated as fact that ‘sea coal’ — a name for the coal that arrived in London by ship from Newcastle — was ‘the ordinary and usual fuel … almost everywhere in every man's house’. A single generation had made the switch.

意味（6）

(historical, technical, chiefly US) Coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.

意味（7）

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.