colliery

English

WOTD – 18 June 2009

Daw Mill colliery in the United Kingdom.

Etymology

From collier + -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒl.jə.ɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑl.jɚ.ɪ/

Noun

colliery (plural collieries)

1. (UK) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, “Chapter VII”, in Capricornia‎^[1], page 91:

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

2. (US) A facility that supplies coal.

Derived terms

• Blackhall Colliery
• Boldon Colliery
• Colliery Row
• Cornsay Colliery
• Easington Colliery
• Shotton Colliery

Translations

underground coal mine

• Armenian: քարածխահանք (hy) (kʻaracxahankʻ)
• Bulgarian: каменовъглена мина (kamenovǎglena mina)
• Czech: uhelný (cs) důl (cs) m
• Dutch: kolenmijn (nl) c
• Finnish: hiilikaivos (fi)
• French: houillère (fr) f, (Belgium) charbonnage (fr) m
• German: Untertagekohlenbergwerk n, Kohlenzeche f
• Hungarian: szénbánya (hu)
• Irish: gualcha f, mianach guail m
• Italian: miniera di carbone f
• Japanese: 地下炭鉱 (chika tankō)
• Macedonian: јагленоко́п m (jaglenokóp)
• Russian: у́гольная ша́хта f (úgolʹnaja šáxta)
• Scottish Gaelic: mèinn-ghuail f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ру̑днӣк угља m

  Latin: rȗdnīk uglja m

• Swedish: kolgruva (sv) c
• Welsh: glofa (cy) f

facility that supplies coal

• Japanese: 地下炭鉱施設 (chika tankō shisetsu)