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pit-coal
pit-coal Now rare or arch. [f. pit n.1 (sense 6) + coal.] Coal obtained from pits or mines (as distinguished from charcoal, coal n. 4: formerly called also sea-coal, now usually simply coal, coal n. 5). See also quot. 1883.1617 Moryson Itin. iii. 141 The greatest quantitie and best kind of pit-coale...
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Open-pit coal mining in the United Kingdom
Open-pit coal mining in the United Kingdom is in decline, and is planned to end in November 2023. Output has fallen every year since 2010. In 2010, the United Kingdom was forecast to produce about of coal a year from open-pit mines. Most came from Scotland, with the largest operator there being the ...
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Big Pit National Coal Museum
Big Pit National Coal Museum () is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 as a charitable trust called the Big Pit (Blaenavon) Trust. By 1 February 2001 Big Pit Coal Museum was incorporated into the Natio...
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pig-metal
ˈpig-ˌmetal [f. pig n.1 7 + metal: cf. sow-metal.] Metal, usually iron, in the form of pigs.1731 Gentl. Mag. I. 167 [He] proposes with Pit-coal Fire to make Bar Iron from Pig-metal. 1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 73/1 His new invented method of making malleable iron from pig or sow metal. 1831 J. Holland ...
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Coke (fuel)
In 1590, a patent was granted to the Dean of York to "purify pit-coal and free it from its offensive smell". In 1627, a patent was granted to Sir John Hacket and Octavius de Strada for a method of rendering sea-coal and pit-coal as useful as charcoal for burning
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sordavalite
sordavalite Min. (ˈsɔːdəvælaɪt) Also sordawal(l)ite. [ad. Sw. sordawalit (Nordenskiöld, 1820), f. Sordawala, -vala, in Finland, its locality.] A vitreous mineral substance found in diabase.1823 W. Phillips Min. (ed. 3) 210 Sordawalite..is described as being nearly black. 1850 Ansted Elem. Geol., Min...
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colker
▪ I. coke, n.1 (kəʊk) Also 7–9 coak, 8 coake, cowke. [Known only from the 17th c., when classed by Ray as a North-country word. Possibly the same as the northern colk n. (also spelt coke) a core, coke being viewed as the hard core of the coal left after other parts have been consumed. The early use ...
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John Roebuck
various improvements in methods of production, including the conversion (patented in 1762) of cast iron into malleable iron "by the action of a hollow pit-coal
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coal pit (n.) | EUdict | English>Tagalog
Translation for: 'coal pit (n.)' in English->Tagalog dictionary. Search over 14 million words and phrases in more than 510 language pairs.
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lithanthrax
‖ liˈthanthrax Obs. Also 7 lithanthrix, 8 lithonthrax. [Mod.L., f. Gr. λίθ-ος stone + ἄνθραξ charcoal.] Used as a scientific name for mineral coal (i.e. ‘coal’ in the mod. sense), in distinction from xylanthrax (charcoal).1611 Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. i. xlvi. 89 The Chiefest commodity..are those Ston...
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Markos Vamvakaris
He worked as a stevedore, a pit-coal miner, a shoe-polisher, a paperboy, a butcher, and other odd jobs.
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culm
▪ I. culm1 (kʌlm) In 5–6 culme, 7 colme. [The same word as coom n.1, pointing to a ME. culm, colm. Connexion with col, coal, suggests itself, and is strengthened by the synonymy of ME. bicolmen, bicollen, the former a deriv. of colm, culm, the latter of colwen, from col, coal: cf. becoom (be- 6 a) c...
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chark
▪ I. chark, n.1 (tʃɑːk) [app. short. from chark coal, which appears soon after 1500, for charcoal, q.v. No independent origin of the word appears. Cf. chark v.2] 1. Wood or coal charred; charcoal; coke.1708–15 Kersey, Charks (in Worcester-shire) Pit-coal chark'd, or charr'd. 1714 Fr. Bk. of Rates 38...
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charcoal
▪ I. charcoal, n. (ˈtʃɑːkəʊl) Forms: 4–7 charcole, 5 charcolle, charkole, 6 chark(e cole, (colle, coole), cherke cole, charecole, 7 charcoll, charcoale, charecoale, char-cole, charcoale, charr-coale, 7–8 char-coal, 7– charcoal. [The first element is of uncertain origin; from the earliest instances i...
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collier
collier (ˈkɒlɪə(r)) Forms: 4 kolier, cholier, 5 colyȝere, colȝer(e, coliare, coler, 5–6 colyer, colier, (coilȝear), 6 colyar, coliar, 6–7 colliar, collyer, (8 coallier), 6– collier. [ME. colier, colyer, etc., f. col, coal, app. after words from Fr. in -ier, q.v. The Sc. coilȝear, and other ME. spell...
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