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noun
Coal from the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Coal from across the sea: mineral coal, as opposed to charcoal, in a time and place in which the former arrived by ship and the latter arrived overland (such as London in Elizabethan times).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-England, historical, uncountable
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noun
Coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, historical, uncountable
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, technical
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Synonyms: steam coal
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noun
Coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.
Such coal used in foundry practice, intermixed with foundry sand or applied in a layer on its face, to modify the behavior of the molten metal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, historical, uncountable
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, technical
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Synonyms: steam coal
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History
From sea + coal.
