colliery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
    pit.

WordNet

Col"lier*y noun
Etymology
Cf. Coalery, Collier.
Wordforms
plural Collieries
Definitions
  1. The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.
  2. The coal trade. Obs. Johnson.

Webster 1913