room-and-pillar
室和柱子,房顶和柱子,室和柱,室和支柱
Definitions
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Mining.
- : noting a means of extracting coal or other minerals from underground deposits by first cutting out rooms, then robbing the pillars between them; pillar-and-breast.
Examples
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Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.
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One day he and some of his roommates were cleaning their room and one of the guys threw the dustpan out into the hall.
Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.
The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
His lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.
When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.