coal

en-verb

coal (third-person singular simple present coals, present participle coaling, simple past and past participle coaled)

coals (present singular third-person)
coaling (participle present)
coaled (participle past)
coaled (past)

From Middle English cole, from Old English col, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą (compare West Frisian koal, Dutch kool, German Kohle, Danish kul), from *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”). Compare Old Irish gúal (“coal”), Lithuanian žvìlti (“to twinkle, glow”), Persian زغال (zoğâl, “live coal”), Sanskrit ज्वल् (jval, “to burn, glow”), Tocharian B śoliye (“hearth”), all from the same root.

Char-coal of roots, coaled into great pieces.

(transitive) To burn to charcoal; to char.


coke

→ Portuguese: coque

Perhaps from Middle English coke, colk (“core”), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(ʷ)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).

cog

The plant should produce approximately 550,000 tons of screened blast furnace coke per year.

At Ho-pi (Hopi) in northern Honan two modern shafts were under construction in 1957-8; but the coal from Ho-pi is expected to be of rather poor quality and so will be mixed with rich coal from P'ing-ting-shan (Pingtingshan) in central Honan for coke making.

1963, “The Coal Industry in Mainland China Since 1949”, in The Geographical Journal, volume 129, number 3, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 333:

(uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.


coke

en-verb

coke (third-person singular simple present cokes, present participle coking, simple past and past participle coked)

cokes (present singular third-person)
coking (participle present)
coked (participle past)
coked (past)

In kerolox engines, some of the fuel flow cokes in the engine's cooling passages over time, requiring thorough cleaning prior to reuse.

(especially automotive, astronautics) To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.


coke

1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut.

(uncountable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).

Coke

(countable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).

Coke

(US, chiefly Southern US, New Mexico, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).


parrot

First attested in 1525. From Middle French perrot, either a diminutive of Pierre or a shortened form of perroquet (whence also parakeet). Compare French pierrot and Occitan parrat. A number of origins have been suggested for perroquet, such as Spanish periquito and Italian parrocchetto. The relationship between these various words is disputed. Replaced earlier popinjay.


tender

From tend + -er. Compare attender (“one who attends”).

Short for water tender (“firefighting apparatus”).


smut

en-noun

smut (countable and uncountable, plural smuts)

From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz.
Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).

cog

She reached it soon after half-past two. She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation. But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly.

1915, Edgar Jepson, “The Reluctant Duke”, in Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 135:

“You can rely on me!” Varya said, still more earnestly and enthusiastically, still leaning heavily on the counter, noticing briefly and forgetting at once that her bare elbow had crushed a stray smut from the Primus mender's booth.

1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Harry Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 56:

“Do I have a smut on my nose, Mr. Donovan? You've been staring at me for a full minute. It's most disconcerting, you know.”

2012, Kasey Michaels, A Masquerade in the Moonlight:

He does not stand upon decency […] but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.

1711 June 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, May 25, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 39; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

(uncountable) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.

Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.

(mining) Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.


collier

From Middle English colier (“charcoal burner”), from col (“coal”).

inh

Near-synonyms: coalminer, coalworker; coalowner, mineowner

en:person who produces or distributes coals of any type

en:person who produces or distributes fossil coal

A person in the business or occupation of producing or distributing coal (any of several types of carbon fuel).

A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.

For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.

1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 224:

en:person who produces or distributes charcoal

(dated or historical) A person in the business or occupation of producing (and selling) charcoal.

By 1830, more than two million tons of coal a year, principally from the North East, arrived in London by coastal collier, and that figure reached three million tons by the 1840s.

2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:

(nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.


cannel

en-noun

cannel (countable and uncountable, plural cannels)

Cannel is dull black in colour while boghead is dull brownish.

2018, O. P. Gupta, Elements of Fuel & Combustion Technology, page 35:

A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.


ganger

From Middle English ganger, from Old English gangere (“a ganger, footman”), equivalent to gang + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gunger, West Frisian gonger, Dutch ganger, German Gänger, Danish gjænger, ganger, Swedish gängare, Icelandic gangari.

inh

(nautical) A length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.


duff

en-noun

duff (countable and uncountable, plural duffs)

Uncertain; probably related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).

der

Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.


slack

en-noun

slack (countable and uncountable, plural slacks)

From Middle English slak, from Old English slæc (“slack”), from Proto-Germanic *slakaz. For sense of coal dust, compare slag.

the slack of a rope or of a sail

take in the slack

(uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.


slack

slack dried hops


slack

Probably from German Schlacke (“dross, slag”). Doublet of slag.

One of the important improvements of recent years has been attained by mixing the peat pulp as it passes through the grinding machine, with other inflammable materials, such as bituminous coal dust, or slack […]

1905, Colliery Engineer, volume 25, page 107:

It had rather a woolly and uneven beat and was inclined to prime, but there was no trouble with steaming even though the tender contained mostly small slack and dust.

1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 220:


black lung

Thousands of miners have given their lives and their health. They've got black lung, they can't work. The Pittston company is trying to cut off their health benefits by various means. That's what the strike is about.

1989 December 3, Pam Mitchell, Ronnie Gilbert, “Carrying On The Honorable Tradition Of 'Protest Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 9:

(pathology) A chronic disease of the lungs caused by the long-term inhalation of coal dust.


bunker

→ Catalan: búnquer

desctree

→ German: Bunker
→ Polish: bunkier
→ Romanian: buncăr

The origin of the noun is uncertain; the earliest sense is sense 6.1 (“box or chest, the lid of which serves as a seat”), from Scots bunker (“bench; pew; window-seat; sand pit (especially in golf); coal receptacle; sleeping berth, bunk”), from Early Scots bunker, bunkur, bonker (“a chest or box, often serving as a seat”), probably from Old Norse bunki (“a heap”) (probably whence bunk (“sleeping berth in a ship, train, etc.”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkô (“a heap, pile; a bump, lump, a crowd”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick”) or *bʰeg- (“to billow, swell; to arch, bend, curve (?)”). Compare Middle Low German bunge (“drum, container”), Middle High German bunge (“drum”). Sense 1 (“hardened shelter designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks”) was derived from German Bunker during World War II, which was itself from bunker (“large bin or container for storing coal”) (sense 5).
The verb is derived from the noun.

cog

en:large storage area for bulk fossil fuel

(nautical) A compartment for storing coal for the ship's boilers; or a tank for storing fuel oil for the ship's engines.

bunker

container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship’s engine

Among tank engines, the 0-6-2 wheel arrangement was by far the most numerous, there being nearly 450 of this arrangement, which offers the advantage of good power and adhesive weight, coupled with adequate tank and bunker capacity, within a limited compass.

1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in The Railway Magazine, Westminster, London: IPC Transport Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 161:

The bunkers of these engines hold enough coal for one round journey of 120½ miles, and water is taken in each direction at Hexham.

1941 December, “Notes and News: A Tank Engine's 241-mile Day”, in Railway Magazine, page 569:

(rail transport) The coal compartment on a tank engine.


bunker

en-verb

bunker (third-person singular simple present bunkers, present participle bunkering, simple past and past participle bunkered)

bunkers (present singular third-person)
bunkering (participle present)
bunkered (participle past)
bunkered (past)

попадам в пясъчника

to hit (a golf ball) into a bunker; to place (a golfer) in the position of having a golf ball in a bunker

(transitive) To load (a vessel) with coal or fuel oil for the engine.

товаря въглища

to load (a vessel) with coal or fuel oil for the engine

(intransitive, of a vessel) To take a load of coal or fuel oil for its engine.


Carboniferous

/ˌkɑːbəˈnɪfəɹəs/


coal tar

en-noun

coal tar (countable and uncountable, plural coal tars)

Coordinate term: coal oil

Phenol can be obtained from coal tars by two methods : (a) Directly by separation of the product contained in this type of feedstock, at the rate of 0.5 to 1.5 per cent weight.

1989, Alain Chauvel, Gilles Lefebvre, Petrochemical Processes: Major Oxygenated, Chlorinated And Nitrated Derivatives, page 123:

A black, viscous tar made by the destructive distillation of coal (to make coke and town gas); it contains a great number of compounds including hydrocarbons and phenols; used in the preparation of medicinal soap and shampoo, and industrially for the manufacture of many products.


town gas

Any of several flammable gases sold and distributed by a municipal gasworks for lighting and heating in a town, including coal gas and water gas.


lignite

lignite (countable and uncountable, plural lignites)

From French lignite, from Latin lignum (“firewood”) + -ite.

Texas industry is turning to lignite, a kind of poor man's coal, to replace its dwindling allocations of natural gas. The Lone Star State now gets an estimated 12 percent of its electricity from lignite, and that figure is expected to double by 1985.

1978 February 14, “Texas Turning to Its Reserves of Lignite”, in New York Times:

[Robert] Habeck, who has found himself in the extremely uncomfortable position of turning from a long-term campaigner against fossil fuels to a short-term defender of them, said: “Putin’s war of aggression is forcing us to temporarily make greater use of lignite so that we save gas in electricity generation. This is painful but necessary in view of the shortage of gas.”

2023 January 10, Kate Connolly, “Climate activists ‘prepared to risk lives’ to stop German coalmine”, in The Guardian:


bituminous

bituminous (countable and uncountable, plural bituminouses)

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destructive distillation

destructive distillation (countable and uncountable, plural destructive distillations)

(organic chemistry, physical chemistry) The heating of a material, such as coal or wood, in an inert atmosphere, at a high temperature such as to cause decomposition; the principal products include oils and tars from which many useful organic compounds may be obtained; town gas and coke were obtained in this way.


colliery

From the hillock a score of red paths diverged as black ones do from a colliery, one of them leading to the homestead itself […]

1938, Xavier Herbert, “Chapter VII”, in Capricornia, page 91:

(British) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.


anthracite

anthracite (countable and uncountable, plural anthracites)

/ˈænθɹəˌsaɪt/

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”). By surface analysis, anthrac- + -ite.

uder

A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.


syngas

en-noun

syngas (countable and uncountable, plural syngases)

(petrochemistry) Synthesis gas or coal gas.


coal gas

(petrochemistry) The poisonous gas, used domestically for cooking etc and formerly for lighting, prepared by heating coal with steam (gasification); it is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide; sometimes synonymous with synthesis gas or town gas.


torbanite

torbanite (countable and uncountable, plural torbanites)

From Torbane + -ite, after Torbane Hill near Bathgate in Scotland, its main location of occurrence.

A variety of coal, derived from colonial algae, that resembles carbonaceous shale.


firedamp

firedamp (usually uncountable, plural firedamps)

From fire + damp with 'damp' not in the usual sense of 'moist' but old German, modern Dutch, Danish 'damp' as steam or vapour, hence a gas liable to catch fire.

(mining) An inflammable gas (mostly methane) found in coal mines; forms an explosive mixture with air.


coal seam

Alternatively, the N.C.B. agrees to pay a percentage of the cost of any repairs or preventive work that ensues from working the coal seam.

1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The subsidence problem”, in Trains Illustrated, page 651:

(geology) A stratum of coal between strata of other rocks.

煤層

a stratum of goal between strata of other rocks


coal ball

A nodule of plant material permeated with minerals found mostly in bituminous and anthracite coal seams


coalman

A coal miner (as distinguished from other type of miners).

въглекопач

a coal miner (as distinguished from other type of miners)


coal mine

A mine from which coal ore or coal minerals are mined.


coalfield

The amount of coal despatched in the Western Region is about 24,000,000 tons a year, nearly all from South Wales, though the Region includes the Forest of Dean, N. Somerset, and part of the N. Wales coalfields.

1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:

Any region containing deposits of coal that may be mined.


coalification

coalification (usually uncountable, plural coalifications)

(geology) The formation of coal by the gradual heating and compression of organic matter, normally via peat.


clean coal

(dated) anthracite (a cleaner burning variety of coal, which is usually hard and bluish, with fewer impurities; making it acceptable for uses needing cleaner coal)


channel coal

When this coal is put into the fire, it crackles, and separates into laminae, as the channel coal does into irregular pieces, burns for some time with a heavy flame, becomes red-hot, and gradually consumes to light white ashes.

1772, Philosophical Transactions, page 265:

Of channel coal there has been imported into the States from England 17,767 tons, against 27,641 tons in 1871.

1873, Great Britain. Foreign Office, Reports from Her Majesty's Consuls on the Manufactures, ..., page 1256:

Between 25,000 and 30,000 bushels of channel coal were mined from three pits in Phelps and Crawford counties and hauled to the Works […]

1964, James D. Norris, Frontier Iron: The Maramec Iron Works, 1826-1876, page 112:


black coal

black coal (countable and uncountable, plural black coals)


koke

koke (absolutive indefinite)
kokea (absolutive indefinite singular)
kokeak (absolutive indefinite plural)
kokek (ergative indefinite)
kokeak (ergative indefinite singular)
kokeek (ergative indefinite plural)
kokeri (dative indefinite)
kokeari (dative indefinite singular)
kokeei (dative indefinite plural)
kokeren (genitive indefinite)
kokearen (genitive indefinite singular)
kokeen (genitive indefinite plural)
kokerekin (comitative indefinite)
kokearekin (comitative indefinite singular)
kokeekin (comitative indefinite plural)
kokerengatik (causative indefinite)
kokearengatik (causative indefinite singular)
kokeengatik (causative indefinite plural)
kokerentzat (benefactive indefinite)
kokearentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
kokeentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
kokez (indefinite instrumental)
kokeaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
kokeez (indefinite instrumental plural)
koketan (indefinite inessive)
kokean (indefinite inessive singular)
kokeetan (indefinite inessive plural)
koketako (indefinite locative)
kokeko (indefinite locative singular)
kokeetako (indefinite locative plural)
koketara (allative indefinite)
kokera (allative indefinite singular)
kokeetara (allative indefinite plural)
koketaraino (indefinite terminative)
kokeraino (indefinite singular terminative)
kokeetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
koketarantz (directive indefinite)
kokerantz (directive indefinite singular)
kokeetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
koketarako (destinative indefinite)
kokerako (destinative indefinite singular)
kokeetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
koketatik (ablative indefinite)
koketik (ablative indefinite singular)
kokeetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
kokerik (indefinite partitive)
koketzat (indefinite prolative)

Borrowed from Spanish coque, from English coke.


coalfired

a coalfired electric power station


coal drop

The ladies remained at the house, while the men walked to the staith on the [River] Wear, and were shown the process of unloading the wagons into the keels by means of the coal-drop.

1948 January and February, “Notes and News: Duke of Wellington's Early Railway Journey”, in Railway Magazine, page 56:

An elevated railway track designed to allow material to fall freely between the rails onto the ground beneath. It is used to rapidly unload hoppers containing coal and other bulk materials.


CWP

coal worker's pneumoconiosis
coal worker's pneumoconiosis#English

(uncountable) Initialism of coal worker's pneumoconiosis.


seacoal

[…] and then of Sea-Coal and other necessary Fewel, fit for the working or melting of these Metalls; […]

1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 49

And the change came fast. In 1570 there was still little sign of any major divergence from the traditional use of wood as fuel. Less than forty years later, in 1607, a case brought by the Crown in the Star Chamber stated as fact that ‘sea coal’ — a name for the coal that arrived in London by ship from Newcastle — was ‘the ordinary and usual fuel … almost everywhere in every man's house’. A single generation had made the switch.

2020, Ruth Goodman, The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal Into Victorian Homes Changed Everything, Liveright, →ISBN, page xvii:

(historical, chiefly Southern England) coal from across the sea: mineral coal, as opposed to charcoal, in a time and place in which the former arrived by ship and the latter arrived overland (such as London in Elizabethan times).


lignitic

en-adj

lignitic (comparative more lignitic, superlative most lignitic)

more lignitic (comparative)
most lignitic (superlative)

lignitic clay

lignitic coal

lignitic sediment


lignitiferous

lignitiferous (comparative more lignitiferous, superlative most lignitiferous)

more lignitiferous (comparative)
most lignitiferous (superlative)

Producing or containing lignite; lignitic


anthraciferous

anthraciferous (comparative more anthraciferous, superlative most anthraciferous)

more anthraciferous (comparative)
most anthraciferous (superlative)

anthraciferous sandstone

anthraciferous strata


coal-whipper

[W]e were in among the tiers of shipping […] [H]ere, were colliers by the score and score, with the coal-whippers plunging off stages on deck, as counterweights to measures of coal swinging up, which were then rattled over the side into barges […]

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

(UK, dated) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship.


cannel coal

en-noun

cannel coal (countable and uncountable, plural cannel coals)

Gerald was enthusiastic. After a while they shook hands, it being time to separate. And for a long time Selwyn sat there alone in the visitors’ room, absent-eyed, facing the blazing fire of cannel coal.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:


coal-meter

(obsolete, UK) A licensed or official coal measurer in London.


carbochemistry

The chemistry of carbon, especially the chemical transformation of coal into industrially useful materials


steam coal

steam coal (usually uncountable, plural steam coals)

A coal which has a grade between bituminous coal and anthracite, and which was once widely used as a fuel for steam engines in ships and locomotives.


nutty slack

Mr. Nabarro asked the Minister of Fuel and Power the calorific value of nutty slack currently being marketed to domestic consumers, ration-free, by the National Coal Board, compared with normal house coals; what quantity of nutty slack is to be available, in total, during the present coal-winter; the market response to date; how much nutty slack it is estimated will be sold this winter; and whether nutty slack is to be a permanent, ration-free feature of our domestic fuel economy.

1953 February 2, Gerald Nabarro, Member of Parliament for Kidderminster, “Nutty Slack”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Commons Official Report (House of Commons of the United Kingdom), volume 510, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, columns 1460–1461:

(British, historical) A cheap fuel consisting of slack (“coal dust”) and nuts (“small lumps of coal”); unlike other solid fuels it was not rationed during the period after World War II.


anthracosis

(pneumology, pathology) A relatively mild pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of coal.


illuminating gas

Any of several types of flammable gas produced and distributed commercially, especially when used for gaslight; coal gas, water gas, and natural gas have all been sold as illuminating gas or town gas.


buckwheat coal

buckwheat coal (usually uncountable, plural buckwheat coals)


coke breeze

The cook-house was like a cathedral's nave, aisles being divided off by the pipes of stoves. The floor was of coke-brise, shining under french polish and turpentine.

1930, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades, Grosset & Dunlap, page 308:

A building material composed of cement and breeze; low-grade concrete.


dice coal

Rhomboidal coal (commonly called dice coal), in contradistinction to coals which do not break in rhombs.

1804, James Sowerby, British Mineralogy:

(dated) A kind of coal that easily splits into cubical fragments.


קויל

koyl (romanization)
koyln (romanization)

From Belarusian or Ukrainian ку́ля (kúlja). Alternatively, cognate to German Kaule but semantically influenced by Kugel, the two of which are likely related (also cf. Keule). If so, ultimately descended from Old High German *kūla.


קויל

yi-noun

קויל • (koyl) m or f, plural קוילן (koyln)

From Middle High German kol, from Old High German kol, from Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵulHom.


煤礦

/meɪ̯³⁵ kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/

/muːi̯²¹ kʰɔːŋ³³/

/moi̯¹¹ kʰoŋ⁵⁵/

/moi̯¹¹ kʰoŋ⁵⁵/

/moi̯¹¹ kʰoŋ³¹/

/muẽ²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰɔŋ¹¹/

/muẽ²³⁻³³ kʰɔŋ²¹/

/bue²³⁻³³ kʰɔŋ²¹/

/bue²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰɔŋ¹¹/

/muĩ²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰɔŋ¹¹/

/muĩ²³⁻³³ kʰɔŋ²¹/

/meɪ̯³⁵ kʰu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/

/muːi̯²¹ kʰɔːŋ³³/

/moi̯¹¹ kʰoŋ⁵⁵/

/moi̯¹¹ kʰoŋ⁵⁵/

/moi̯¹¹ kʰoŋ³¹/

/muẽ²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰɔŋ¹¹/

/muẽ²³⁻³³ kʰɔŋ²¹/

/bue²³⁻³³ kʰɔŋ²¹/

/bue²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰɔŋ¹¹/

/muĩ²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰɔŋ¹¹/

/muĩ²³⁻³³ kʰɔŋ²¹/


splent coal

(archaic) An inferior kind of cannel coal from Scottish collieries, having a slaty structure.


coal hole

A hole in the pavement with a removable hatch, leading to an underground coal bunker.


blind coal

Coal that burns without a flame; anthracite coal.


soft coal

Bituminous coal, as distinguished from hard coal (anthracite).


gas coal

en-noun

gas coal (countable and uncountable, plural gas coals)

It is a good gas-coal, and well fitted for steam purposes, and for use in reverberatory furnaces.

1870, Rossiter Worthington Raymond, Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains:

A bituminous or hydrogenous coal yielding a high proportion of volatile material, and therefore available for the manufacture of illuminating gas.


caking coal

A bituminous coal which softens and becomes pasty or semiviscid when heated. On increasing the heat, the volatile products are driven off, and a coherent, grayish-black, cellular mass of coke is left.


mother of coal

Apparently named by analogy with mother of pearl and mother of vinegar, on the theme of a matrix that produces (or was believed to produce) the end product and also coexists therewith.


mineral coal

Coal coming from the ground, as opposed to charcoal produced by recent burning.


hard coal

hard coal (usually uncountable, plural hard coals)

Anthracite, as distinguished from bituminous soft coal.


metallurgical coal

metallurgical coal (countable and uncountable, plural metallurgical coals)

The type of coal used for the making of steel.


thermal coal

the type of coal used in coal-fired electrical power plants


black diamond

black diamond (countable and uncountable, plural black diamonds)

Carbonado, a natural diamond that is black in color.

conspicuous consumption
conspicuous consumption

(South Africa, derogatory) A member of the new affluent black middle class in South Africa, characterized by conspicuous consumption.


anthracosilicosis

Advanced pneumoconiosis resulting from inhalation of coal dust.


coal burner

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A nonblack person, usually a woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men.


coal cracker

Our first coal region poll, and what a great one it was! Coal Crackers sure do love their pizza.

1998 October, “Top Ten Lists: Pizza Parlors”, in CoalRegion.com, retrieved 2016-10-29:

Pawel Gobol is Joey's humble father, a coal cracker who worked in the mines since he was 15.

2008, Gene Gomolka, Coal Cracker's Son, Back cover (Google books)

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Mike Stack . . . said his grandfather was a “coal cracker from Girardville.”

2016 March 20, Mark Gilger Jr., “Revelers celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Irish history at Girardville parade”, in The Republican-Herald, Pennsylvania, US, retrieved 2016-10-29:

(US, slang) A native or established resident of the traditional coal-mining area of northeastern Pennsylvania; a worker in the mines of this region.


Coalgate

A small town in Selwyn District, Canterbury, New Zealand, where lignite was mined.

A small city, the county seat of Coal County, Oklahoma, United States.

A former unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.


कोयला

koylā (romanization)
کوئلہ (Urdu)
कोयला (direct singular)
कोयले (direct plural)
कोयले (oblique singular)
कोयलों (oblique plural)
कोयले (singular vocative)
कोयलो (plural vocative)

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑁄𑀇𑀮𑀸 (koilā, “burning charcoal”), from Sanskrit कोकिल (kokila, “lighted coal; charcoal”), of Munda origin. Despite strong phonetic and semantic similarities, unrelated to English coal, which comes from PIE *ǵwelH- (“to burn, shine”) (whence Hindi जलना (jalnā) ultimately derives).

inh

कोयले की खान


wōngel

szl-noun

wōngel m inan (related adjective wōngelny)

wōngelny (adjective)
wōngel (nominative singular)
wōngle (nominative plural)
wōngli (nominative plural)
wōnglŏ (genitive singular)
wōnglōw (genitive plural)
wōnglu (dative singular)
wōnglōm (dative plural)
wōngel (accusative singular)
wōngle (accusative plural)
wōngli (accusative plural)
wōnglym (instrumental singular)
wōnglami (instrumental plural)
wōnglōma (instrumental plural)
wōnglu (locative singular)
wōnglach (locative plural)
wōnglu (singular vocative)
wōngle (plural vocative)
wōngli (plural vocative)


vitrain

en-noun

vitrain (countable and uncountable, plural vitrains)

The caking behaviour of vitrain and clarain could be improved after the coal has been picked out.

1996, T.S. Golosinski, Guo Yuguang, Mining Science and Technology 1996, →ISBN, page 396:

In order to measure relatively accurately the activation energy of coal, and to exclude the disturbance from coal samples, the hand-picked banded vitrains in bright coal are adopted as experimental samples (Table 1).

1997, Yang Qi, Geology of Fossil Fuels: Coal, →ISBN, page 149:

Thus, it may be concluded that a lower viscosity of plastic vitrain grains facilitates pores to grow and coalesce and grains to stick to one another to create intergrain pores.

2012, C.E. Snape, Composition, Geochemistry and Conversion of Oil Shales, →ISBN, page 491:

A constituent of banded bituminous coal consisting of a horizontal glossy band of friable material.


smithy coal

smithy coal (countable and uncountable, plural smithy coals)

A kind of small coal much used by smiths.


semibituminous

semibituminous coal


coal train

Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.

1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:

Out in Ohio on test on level, tangent track a single 2-6-6-6 once moved a 160-car, 14.083-ton coal train to 19 miles per hour from a standing start in 1 mile and 6 minutes, and had it rolling 29 miles per hour within a total elapsed time of 11 minutes.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 61:

One of the biggest flows of traffic through Trent consists of coal trains from Toton to Castle Donington or Willington power stations (on the Castle Donington branch) or to the Birmingham area, with two or three trains to Chaddesden.

1961 March, Warren Smith, “The problems of train regulation - a study of operation at Trent”, in Trains Illustrated, page 169:

(rail transport) a freight train which carries a single commodity: coal.


coal pusher

The M-1's had roller bearings on all axles, high-speed Franklin boosters, steam lines, tender coal pushers - all the gadgets one could ask.

1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 71:

(rail transport) a device used to push coal forward in the tender of a steam locomotive.


bunkerage

18 October 2017, Italy busts gang smuggling Zawia diesel to Sicily in Libya Herald
Gazzettinonline reported that the smuggled diesel was in fact low grade and normally used as bunkerage for ships.

(nautical) Oil or coal used for the engine of a vessel


coal plant

A power station using coal as its energy source.


semianthracite

semianthracite (countable and uncountable, plural semianthracites)

coal that is intermediate between anthracite and semibituminous coal.


coal rank

coal rank (countable and uncountable, plural coal ranks)

(geology) The measure or degree of the progressive coalification (organic metamorphism) of a coal, often expressed in terms of vitrinite reflectance.


angeerí

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angeerí f (Perso-Arabic spelling انگیریۡ)

انگیریۡ (Perso-Arabic)
angeerí (nominative singular)
angeeriá (nominative plural)
angeerí (oblique singular)
angeerióom (oblique plural)

Inherited from Sanskrit अङ्गार्या (aṅgāryā, “heap of embers”).


coking coal

All grades of coal, deepmined and opencast, are produced, and Durham coking coal is unsurpassed for iron and steel making and is world-famous.

1959 May, R. A. Savill, “The coal traffic of the North Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 272:

Among the numerous types of vehicles required are special 33½-ton vacuum-braked hopper wagons for iron ore imported at Newport docks, 21-ton vacuum-braked wagons for coking-coal and 56-ton vehicles for slabs and coils.

1962 December, “Railways and the Spencer Steelworks”, in Modern Railways, page 410:

Bituminous coal which is suitable for making into coke, for example for use in steel manufacture.


bunkerman

(historical) A man in charge of an industrial coal storage bunker.


coal merchant

It would seem that the Speedwell was built during the first half of 1830, for the Monmouthshire Merlin of June 12, 1830, said: "Mr. Prothero, one of the most extensive coal merchants in that district, intends hauling his coal to Newport with two engines, preparing for him at the Neath Abbey Iron Works."

1941 June, “Some Early Welsh-Built Engines”, in Railway Magazine, page 247:

Queen Mary of the Iron Road. By Fred C. Bishop. […] This is the life-story of a boy who was determined to become an engine driver, and who lost no time in realising his ambition. A bold plunge from a clerkship in a coal merchant's office carried Fred Bishop, at the age of 14, into the locomotive department of the London & North Western Railway.

1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:

(dated) A person who deals in coal, either on a large scale or in a particular locality, where coal was weighed and bagged by the merchant, delivered to households and tipped into a coal bunker.


કોયલો

koyalo (romanization)
કોયલો (nominative singular)
કોયલા (nominative plural)
કોયલાઓ (nominative plural)
કોયલા (oblique singular)
કોયલાઓ (oblique plural)
કોયલા (singular vocative)
કોયલાઓ (plural vocative)
કોયલે (instrumental singular)
કોયલાએ (instrumental plural)
કોયલે (locative singular)
કોયલે (locative plural)

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀓𑁄𑀇𑀮 (koila), from Munda, from Proto-Munda *ko(y)ila.


coal gap

(geology) The time period with few coal deposits from the Permian to middle Jurassic.


dirty coal

Due to the smell it gives off when burned.

Lignite's nickname “dirty coal,” suggests its one major drawback, but its allure is clearly its cost. Lignite is cheaper than most other energy sources.

1978 February 14, “Texas Turning to Its Reserves of Lignite”, in New York Times:


bunker barge

Originally in reference to coal bunkers.

(nautical) A vessel used to refuel ships with coal or bunker fuel.


Kǫe̩l

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(Rheinische Dokumenta spelling, Southeast Limburgish)

From Proto-West Germanic *kol, from Proto-Germanic *kulą.

(uncountable) coal (material; either stone coal or charcoal)


קאָקס

Borrowed from German Koks, Polish koks, or Russian кокс (koks).

coke (solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven)


central de carvão

pt-noun

central de carvão f (plural centrais de carvão)

[sẽˈtɾaʊ̯ d͡ʒi kaɦˈvɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

[sẽˈtɾaʊ̯ d͡ʒi kaɦˈvɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

[sẽˈtɾaʊ̯ d͡ʒi kaɾˈvɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

[sẽˈtɾaʊ̯ d͡ʒi kaʁˈvɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

[sẽˈtɾaʊ̯ de kaɻˈvɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

/sẽˈtɾal dɨ kɐɾˈvɐ̃w̃/

[sẽˈtɾaɫ dɨ kɐɾˈvɐ̃w̃]

/sẽˈtɾal dɨ kɐɾˈvɐ̃w̃/

[sẽˈtɾaɫ dɨ kɐɾˈvɐ̃w̃]

/sẽˈtɾal dɨ kɐɾˈbɐ̃w̃/

[sẽˈtɾaɫ dɨ kɐɾˈβɐ̃w̃]

[sẽˈtɾa.li ðɨ kɐɾˈvɐ̃w̃]

(Portugal) coal-fired power plant, coal plant


угльов

head

угльов (uhlʹov)

rsk-adj

угльов (uhlʹov)


углє

head

углє (uhlje) m inan (related adjective угльов)

Inherited from Old Slovak uhlie, from Proto-Slavic *ǫgľь. Cognate with Slovak uhlie.