small coal

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Noun[edit]

small coal (countable and uncountable, plural small coals)

  1. (obsolete) Charcoal.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5:
      We first declare, that Gunpowder consisteth of three ingredients, Saltpetre, Small-coal, and Brimstone.
  2. Small fragments of coal; slack.
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