Definition of coal

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Coal (n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter..

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Triumvirate :: Triumvirate (n.) Government by three in coalition or association; the term of such a government.
Dan :: Dan (n.) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
Smut :: Smut (v. t.) Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter..
Chark :: Chark (v. t.) To burn to a coal; to char.
Bucket :: Bucket (n.) A vessel (as a tub or scoop) for hoisting and conveying coal, ore, grain, etc..
Float :: Float (v. i.) A coal cart.
Gleed :: Gleed (v. i.) A live or glowing coal; a glede.
Ashes :: Ashes (n. pl.) The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal..
Amalgamate :: Amalgamate (v. i.) To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate..
Coalesced :: Coalesced (imp. & p. p.) of Coalesc.
Haloxyline :: Haloxyline (n.) An explosive mixture, consisting of sawdust, charcoal, niter, and ferrocyanide of potassium, used as a substitute for gunpowder..
Toluene :: Toluene (n.) A hydrocarbon, C6H5.CH3, of the aromatic series, homologous with benzene, and obtained as a light mobile colorless liquid, by distilling tolu balsam, coal tar, etc.; -- called also methyl benzene, phenyl methane, etc..
Caking Coal :: Caking coal () See Coal.
Coalery :: Coalery (n.) See Colliery.
Coalfish :: Coalfish (n.) The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock..
Coalgoose :: Coalgoose (n.) The cormorant; -- so called from its black color.
Slack :: Slack (n.) Small coal; also, coal dust; culm..
Glede :: Glede (n.) A live coal.
Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.
Basin :: Basin (n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields..
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