Results for coal
Definitions of coal:
part of speech: verb transitive
part of speech: noun
A solid, black, combustible substance used for fuel, dug out of the earth.
part of speech: noun
A black, hard, combustible mineral, used as fuel.
part of speech: noun
Mineralised vegetable matter; a hard black mineral used as fuel.
part of speech: verb
To take in coal for the supply of a steam or sailing vessel.
part of speech: verb intransitive
Usage examples for coal:
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Let us go back to the coal trade.
"Britain for the British", Robert Blatchford -
A good deal of useless anxiety has been devoted to the questions: What will the human race do when the coal gives out?
"Editorials-from-the-Hearst-Newspapers", Brisbane, Arthur -
We saw a good vein of coal to- day, about ten inches thick.
"Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51", E. S. (Eleazer Stillman) Ingalls -
Not much coal was dug in the Middle Ages.
"The Romance of Names", Ernest Weekley