"coal patch" meaning in English

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  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "patch",
      "patch"
    ],
    [
      "German",
      "German"
    ],
    [
      "pacht",
      "pacht"
    ],
    [
      "rent",
      "rent"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The term patch is believed to derive from the German word pacht, which translates \"to rent,\" referencing the fact that everything in the town was rented from or owned by the company.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coal patches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "coal patch (plural coal patches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Western Pennsylvania English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mining",
          "orig": "en:Mining",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              26,
              36
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2024, Kevin Fedarko, “Chapter 3: Hell With the Lid Off”, in A Walk in the Park, page 22:",
          "text": "Mike Fedarko grew up in a coal patch, a cluster of company-owned houses and a company-run store, directly adjacent to a mine and often named after the nearest headframe or winding tower [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A company town built by a coal or mining company to house its workers and their families."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "patch town"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-coal_patch-en-noun-ZOPE4L3t",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, historical, Western Pennsylvania) A company town built by a coal or mining company to house its workers and their families."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "coal country"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "patch town"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Pennsylvania",
        "Western",
        "historical",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "coal patch"
}

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "patch",
      "patch"
    ],
    [
      "German",
      "German"
    ],
    [
      "pacht",
      "pacht"
    ],
    [
      "rent",
      "rent"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The term patch is believed to derive from the German word pacht, which translates \"to rent,\" referencing the fact that everything in the town was rented from or owned by the company.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coal patches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "coal patch (plural coal patches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "coal country"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with entries",
        "Western Pennsylvania English",
        "en:Mining"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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            [
              26,
              36
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2024, Kevin Fedarko, “Chapter 3: Hell With the Lid Off”, in A Walk in the Park, page 22:",
          "text": "Mike Fedarko grew up in a coal patch, a cluster of company-owned houses and a company-run store, directly adjacent to a mine and often named after the nearest headframe or winding tower [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A company town built by a coal or mining company to house its workers and their families."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "patch town"
        }
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, historical, Western Pennsylvania) A company town built by a coal or mining company to house its workers and their families."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Pennsylvania",
        "Western",
        "historical",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "patch town"
    }
  ],
  "word": "coal patch"
}