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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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... finest span of horses in this country," she says, and "did you see his daughter?" Much other information concerning the Starkweather household, culinary and otherwise, is current among our hills. We know accurately the number of Mr. Starkweather's bedrooms, we can tell how much coal he uses in winter and how many tons of ice in summer, and upon such important premises we ...

— Adventures In Contentment • David Grayson

... that they were ghosts. If a labourer descended into a well and was suffocated, as if struck dead by some invisible hand; if a lamp lowered down burnt for a few moments with a lurid flame, and was then extinguished; if, in a coal mine, when the unwary workman exposed a light, on a sudden the place was filled with flashing flames and thundering explosions, tearing down the rocks and destroying every living thing in the way, often, too, without leaving on the dead any marks of violence; ...

— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper

... does the daisy see Down in the grassy thickets? The grasshoppers green and brown, And the shining, coal-black crickets. ...

— Graded Memory Selections • Various

... of the men on the railroads tied up transportation. Railroads are the arteries of travel, commerce, and trade. To stop them is to prevent the transportation of provisions or of coal, to starve and freeze cities and communities. Cleveland used the whole power of the federal government to keep free the transportation on the railways and to punish as the enemies of the whole people those who were trying to stop them. It was a lesson which ...

— My Memories of Eighty Years • Chauncey M. Depew

... were in order on the other. The breakfast fire had burned out; only the great backlog, hoary with gray ashes, lay slumbering at the back of the fireplace. The planter poked the drift of ashes between the andirons with a green oak stick until he saw a live coal shining red in the gray about it. This he rolled out upon the hearth, and then took it between thumb and finger and deposited it within the bowl of his pipe by a deft motion, which gave it no time to ...

— Duffels • Edward Eggleston

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