lignite
Webster Dictionary
mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal
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slack
(slack)
Princeton's WordNet
dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
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anthracite
Webster Dictionary
a hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal
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basin
Webster Dictionary
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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coal tar
(coal tar)
Princeton's WordNet
a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal; coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds
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scuttle
(scuttle, coal scuttle)
Princeton's WordNet
container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
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coal scuttle
(scuttle, coal scuttle)
Princeton's WordNet
container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire
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deep-mined
(deep-mined)
Princeton's WordNet
of coal, as contrasted with coal obtained from a strip mine
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black lung
(ˈblækˌlɪst)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
pneumoconiosis of coal miners caused by coal dust.
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lignite
(ˈlɪg naɪt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a soft coal, usu. dark brown, often having a distinct woodlike texture, and intermediate in density and carbon content between peat and bituminous coal.
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coaly
Webster Dictionary
pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal
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underclay
Webster Dictionary
a stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria
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collier
Webster Dictionary
one engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal
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fitter
Webster Dictionary
a coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper
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breeze
Webster Dictionary
refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks
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xylanthrax
Webster Dictionary
wood coal, or charcoal; -- so called in distinction from mineral coal
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colliery
Webster Dictionary
the place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it
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coal works
Webster Dictionary
a place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal
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scuttle
Webster Dictionary
a wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod
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phenol
Webster Dictionary
a white or pinkish crystalline substance, C6H5OH, produced by the destructive distillation of many organic bodies, as wood, coal, etc., and obtained from the heavy oil from coal tar
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hod
Webster Dictionary
a utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle
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slack
Webster Dictionary
small coal; also, coal dust; culm
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bovey coal
Webster Dictionary
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 oolite, and not of the true coal era
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sea coal
Webster Dictionary
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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keel
Webster Dictionary
a barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt
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fault
Webster Dictionary
in coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc
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coal
Webster Dictionary
to supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer
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pit
Webster Dictionary
the shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit
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coal
(coal)
Princeton's WordNet
take in coal
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coal seam
(coal seam)
Princeton's WordNet
a seam of coal
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