Word Finder - coal

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A black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.

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Put some coal on the fire.

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A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)

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Put some coals on the fire.

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A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof.

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A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.

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Just as the camp-fire died down to just coals, with no flames to burn the marshmallows, someone dumped a whole load of wood on, so I gave up and went to bed.

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Charcoal.

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To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).

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To supply with coal.

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to coal a steamer

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To be converted to charcoal.

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To burn to charcoal; to char.

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To mark or delineate with charcoal.

Coal is found in the ground, too.

The city has immense coal piers.

Near the city are valuable coal mines, and there is one within the city limits.

Among later additions were gunmounting stores, boiler shop, boat sheds, canteen, coal stores, &c., together with a double dock 750 ft.

In my time too; the war brought some money in and coal was getting dug so's there was jobs.

The borough is finely situated in the Wyoming Valley among the rich anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania, and its inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the coal industry; in 1906 and 1907 (when it shipped 24,081,4 9 1 tons) Luzerne county shipped more anthracite coal than any other county in Pennsylvania.

It is the largest peanut market in the world, is in a great truck-gardening region, and makes large shipments of cotton (822,930 bales in 1905), oysters, coal, fertilizers, lumber, grain, fruits, wine, vegetables, fish and live stock.

Charcoal, coke or anthracite coal are the fuels generally used in slow combustion heating stoves.

Iron ore is found in the state in the coal hills (especially Laurel Hills and Beaver Lick Mountain), but the deposits have not been worked on a large scale.

Railway development in West Virginia has been due largely to the exploitation of the coal and lumber resources of the state.

It is the carrier of a heavy tonnage of coal to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

The Flemish coal-basin, employing over 100,000 hands, produces 60% of the coal mined in France.

The Alleghany Plateau consists of nearly horizontal beds of limestone, sandstone and shales, including important seams of coal; inclines slightly toward the north-west, and is intricately dissected by extensively branching streams into a maze of narrow canyons and steep-sided hills.

Butter is the principal export, and petroleum, coal and iron the imports.

Large quantities of coal and tea are exported.

The imports consist principally of coal, salt, grain and flour, groceries, textiles, wood, and mineral oils.

Coal.The principal mines of France are coal and iron mines.

After the year 1884 Labour troubles became very frequent, the New South Wales coal miners in particular being at war with the colliery owners during the greater part of the six years intervening between then and what is called the Great Strike.

Iron, coal and slate are the chief products, and copper and cobalt may be added.

Minerals remained for the most part unworked, though the profitable coal fields and oil wells in Ferghana were used when disturbances in Trans-Caspia cut Turkestan off from the Baku oil, on which it relies entirely for its industrial life.

Europe generally, the principal coal seams occur in the Upper Carboniferous, while the Lower Carboniferous is mainly composed of marine deposits, with, however, the first bed of coal near its summit.

The only important industries are connected with cotton and coal.

Bright, glance or pitch coal is another brilliant variety, brittle, and breaking into regular fragments of a black colour and pitchy lustre.

Black coal forms one of the principal resources of New South Wales; and in the other states the deposits of this valuable mineral are being rapidly developed.

Coal of a very fair description was discovered in the basin of the Irwin river, in Western Australia, as far back as the year 1846.

The most important discovery of coal in the state, so far, is that made in the bed of the Collie river, near Bunbury, to the south of Perth.

The coal has been treated and found to be of good quality, and there are grounds for supposing that there are 250,000,000 tons in the field.

The coal mines of New South Wales give employment to 14,000 persons, and the annual production is over 6,600,000 tons.

Black coal has been discovered in Victoria, and about 250,000 tons are now being raised.

The quantity of coal extracted annually in Australia had in 1906 reached 7,497,000 tons.

It is a species of cannel coal, somewhat similar to the Boghead mineral of Scotland, but yielding a much larger percentage of volatile hydro-carbon than the Scottish mineral.

Excluding coal lines and other lines not open to general traffic, the length of railways in private hands is only 382 m.

It was hard indeed for a carter drawing coal to a gasworks to recognize the necessity which compelled a reduction in his wages because wool had fallen 20 7 0.

It has large coal mines, which form the south-western portion of the extensive Upper Silesian coal fields, the largest Austrian deposit.

Impure coal has also been recorded.

Belleville is in a rich agricultural region, and in the vicinity there are valuable coal mines, the first of which was sunk in 1852; from this dates the industrial development of the city.

The commerce of the lake consists principally of coal, wood pulp and building material, besides general merchandise.

Petroleum and coal have been worked, and there is a rich yield of chalk, while a good quality of bricks is made from the xxii.

Machines used for lifting only are not called cranes, but winches, lifts or hoists, while the term elevator or conveyor is commonly given to appliances which continuously, not in separate loads, move materials like grain or coal in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal direction.

A transporter of this kind, when fitted with a grab, is a very efficient machine for taking coal from barges and depositing it in a coal store.

Vessels go to Porman to land coke and coal, and to load iron ore and lead.

Timber is largely imported from the United States, Sweden and Russia; coal from Great Britain; dried codfish from Norway and Newfoundland.

Pipeclay and china clay, from Kingsteighton, are shipped for the Staffordshire potteries, while coal and general goods are imported.

This is mixed with small coal, and when redistilled gives an enriched dust, and by repeating the process and distilling from cast iron retorts the metal is obtained.

If the available water-power of Italy, already very considerable, be harnessed, converted into electric power (which is already being done in some districts), and further increased by reafforestation, the effect upon the industries of Italy will be incalculable, and the importation of coal will be very materially diminished.

A quantity of it is really brushwood, used for the manufacture of charcoal and for fuel, coal being little used except for manufacturing purposes.

This led to deficiencies in the supply of coal to the manufacturing centres, and to some diversion elsewhere of shipping.

The most important imports are minerals, including coal and metals (both in pig and wrought); silks, raw, spun and woven; stone, potters earths, earthenware and glass; corn, flour and farinaceous products; cotton, raw, spun and woven; and live stock.

In 1894 the excess of imports over exports fell to 2,720,000, but by 1898 it had grown to 8,391,000, in consequence chiefly of the increased importation of coal, raw cotton and cotton thread, pig and cast iron, old iron, grease and oil-seeds for use in Italian industries.

Lincoln is situated in a productive grain region, and has valuable coal mines.