chokedamp

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Etymology

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From choke +‎ damp.

Noun

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chokedamp (usually uncountable, plural chokedamps)

  1. (mining) A damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate.
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World [], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      "Now, when you described the Wigan coal explosion last month, could you not have gone down and helped those people, in spite of the choke-damp?" "I did." "You never said so." "There was nothing worth bucking about." "I didn't know." She looked at me with rather more interest.