colliery
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Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]colliery (plural collieries)
- (British) 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 […]
- (US) A facility that supplies coal.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]underground coal mine
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facility that supplies coal
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