coal : Idioms & Phrases

• . See Age of Acrogens, under Acrogen. Anthracite or Glance coal. See Anthracite.

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• noun a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat
  anthracite coal; anthracite.
  

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• noun rich in tarry hydrocarbons; burns readily with a smoky yellow flame
  bituminous coal.
  

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• a kind of coal which yields, when heated, a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame.

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• coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal. Simmonds.

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Bo"vey coal`

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1. (Min.) A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.

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• noun intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
  brown coal; lignite.
  

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• wood coal. See Lignite.

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• . See Lignite.

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• a bituminous coal, which softens and becomes pasty or semi-viscid when heated. On increasing the heat, the volatile products are driven off, and a coherent, grayish black, cellular mass of coke is left.

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Can"al coal`

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1. See Cannel coal.

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Can"dle coal`

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1. See Cannel coal.

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• noun a bituminous coal that burns with a luminous flame
  

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• a very compact bituminous coal, of fine texture and dull luster. See Cannel coal.

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• (Geol.), a layer or stratum of mineral coal.

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• noun a very dark black
  jet black; soot black; sable; pitch black; ebony.
  

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• a structure including machines and machinery adapted for crushing, cleansing, and assorting coal.

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• noun freight car with fixed sides and no roof; for transporting coal
  

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• noun a chute for coal
  

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• (Geol.), a region in which deposits of coal occur. Such regions have often a basinlike structure, and are hence called coal basins. See Basin.

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• noun gaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting
  

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• a variety of carbureted hydrogen, procured from bituminous coal, used in lighting streets, houses, etc., and for cooking and heating.

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• a man employed in carrying coal, and esp. in putting it in, and discharging it from, ships.

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• noun a shed for storing coal
  

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• noun the producers of coal considered collectively
  

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• . (Geol.) (a) Strata of coal with the attendant rocks. (b) A subdivision of the carboniferous formation, between the millstone grit below and the Permian formation above, and including nearly all the workable coal beds of the world.

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• noun a mine where coal is dug from the ground
  coalpit.
  

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• noun someone who works in a coal mine
  collier; pitman.
  

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• noun lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust
  anthracosis; black lung disease; black lung.
  

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• noun a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
  kerosene; kerosine; lamp oil.
  

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• a general name for mineral oils; petroleum.

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• (Geol.), one of the remains or impressions of plants found in the strata of the coal formation.

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• noun container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
  scuttle.
  

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• noun a seam of coal
  

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• noun a hand shovel for shoveling coal
  

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• noun a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal; coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds
  

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• . See in the Vocabulary.

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• noun tongs for taking hold of burning coals
  fire tongs.
  

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Coal" works

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1. A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.

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• adjective satellite of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
  jet-black; sooty; jet; pitchy.
  

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Coal"-black adjective

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1. As black as coal; jet black; very black. Dryden.

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• adjective satellite fueled by burning coal
  coal-burning.
  
  • a coal-fired ship

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• adjective satellite fueled by burning coal
  coal-burning.
  
  • a coal-fired ship

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Coal"-me`ter noun

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1. A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. Simmonds.

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• noun a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood
  creosote.
  

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Coal"-whip`per noun

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1. One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. Eng. Dickens.

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• noun a seaport where ships can take on supplies of coal
  

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• coal in rounded lumps from the size of an egg to that of a football; called also cobbles. Grose.

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Day"-coal` noun

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1. (Mining) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface.

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• a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.

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• (Mining), the principal cleavage plane, at right angles to the stratification.

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• a bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high percentage of volatile matters, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas. R. W. Raymond.

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• a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning.

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• anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon.

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• noun a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat
  anthracite coal; anthracite.
  

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• anthracite, as distinguished from bituminous or soft coal.

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Ken"nel coal`

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1. . See Cannel coal.

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• coal in large lumps; the largest size brought from the mine.

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• (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite.

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• screened coal of a size smaller than stove coal and larger than pea coal; called also chestnut coal.

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• cannel coal; so called from the crackling and chattering sound it makes in burning. Eng. & Scot.

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• a size of coal smaller than nut coal.

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• coal dug from the earth; mineral coal.

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• (Min.), bituminous coal.

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• noun pulverized bituminous coal; used as a foundry facing
  

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Sea" coal`

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1. Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land.

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• (Founding), facing consisting of pulverized bituminous coal.

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• . (a) Little coals of wood formerly used to light fires . Gay. (b) Coal about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the coarser parts by screening.

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• noun rich in tarry hydrocarbons; burns readily with a smoky yellow flame
  bituminous coal.
  

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• bituminous coal, as distinguished from anthracite, or hard, coal.

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• an inferior kind of cannel coal from Scotch collieries; called also splent, splint, and splint coal.

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• . See Splent coal, under Splent.

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• noun coal suitable for use under steam boilers
  

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• hard coal; mineral coal; anthracite coal.

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• to bear indignities tamely, a phrase used by early dramatists, perhaps from the mean nature of the occupation. Halliwell.

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• to take things to a place where they already abound; to lose one's labor.

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• to call to account; to scold or censure. Colloq.

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• noun intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
  brown coal; lignite.
  
• noun a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air
  charcoal.
  

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• charcoal; also, lignite, or brown coal.
• . See Lignite.

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