white damp

noun

a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.

Origin of white damp

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby white damp

white corpuscle, white crab, white crappie, white croaker, white currant, white damp, white dwarf, white elephant, white ensign, white false hellebore, white feather

Example sentences from the Web for white damp

  • There is also "white-damp," the gas which you see burning with a pretty blue flame over a hot coal fire.

    Diggers in the Earth |Eva March Tappan