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Coal

noun

Fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period.

A hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering. Synonym: ember.

verb

(past & past part. coaled; pres. part. coaling)

Burn to charcoal. Synonym: char.

Supply with coal.

Take in coal.

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"Coal" Quotes from Famous Books

... climate," said the Duchess; "and how unfortunate that we should have had that very cold weather at a time when coal was so dear! ...

— Reginald • Saki

... buried him in a swamp, with a stake driven through the heart to lay his ghost. But clear down to our time when people ceased to believe in ghosts, the fratricide was seen at night hunting through the woods, coal-black and on a white horse, with three fiery dogs trailing after; and blue flames burned over the sea where they vanished. That was how the superstition of the people judged the man whom the nobles and the priests ...

— Hero Tales of the Far North • Jacob A. Riis

... and hay and shelter ready for winter. What we'll spend in improvements, we'll more than save in wages. I am well fixed for the new conditions. And then, when I took up my land, I chose a place where there is coal. It will not be long before the new ...

— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister

... broke out in the alley below. Yells, catcalls, oaths and the sound of crashing bricks, coal, pieces of furniture, and the splash of much water came from ...

— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon

... absurd cockleshells even when compared with a modern destroyer, but they were to make themselves superbly memorable. Perry's flagship was no larger than the ancient coasting schooners which ply today between Bangor and Boston with cargoes of lumber and coal. ...

— The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 - The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 • Ralph D. Paine

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