coal
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1. coal - Noun
2. coal - Verb
3. Coal - Proper noun
Meaning
A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
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.
To burn to charcoal; to char.
To mark or delineate with charcoal.
To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlternative names
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Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything
The big ship coaled
“About 80 people run a coal plant, because we have to have trains, we have to have a big dozer to get the coal off, we have to get the coal on a belt and then go crush it and then feed the boiler,” he said.
A business in Derbyshire is still producing coal and aggregates from a brownfield site until next summer, but employs around 15 people, as opposed to the 250 who worked at Banks’s three sites.
46% of total power generated in the USA was done using coal.
19 Mar. 1894 *1894: Bituminous coal miners' strike :Much of the violence in this national strike was not specifically racial.