What does colliery mean?

Definitions for colliery
ˈkɒl yə ricol·lie·ry

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. colliery, pitnoun

    a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it

Wiktionary

  1. collierynoun

    An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.

  2. collierynoun

    A facility that supplies coal.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Collierynoun

    Etymology: from collier.

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  1. colliery

    A colliery is a coal mine, including all the infrastructure and related facilities such as the buildings, equipment, and shafts needed for the extraction of coal from the ground.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Collierynoun

    the place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it

  2. Collierynoun

    the coal trade

  3. Etymology: [Cf. Coalery, Collier.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of colliery in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of colliery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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