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Definition of coal

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Coal (n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter..

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Cinder :: Cinder (n.) A hot coal without flame; an ember.

Pollock :: Pollock (n.) A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc..

Sea Coal :: Sea coal () Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land..

Underclay :: Underclay (n.) A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria..

Kyanol :: Kyanol (n.) A base obtained from coal tar.

Corf :: Corf (n.) A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.

Coal Tar :: Coal tar () A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making printer's ink, black varnish, etc. It is a complex mixture from which many substances have been obtained, especially hydrocarbons of the benzene or aromatic series..

Heptane :: Heptane (n.) Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc..

Saithe :: Saithe (n.) The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock..

Reticularia :: Reticularia (n. pl.) An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell..

Coalesce :: Coalesce (n.) To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce..

Facing :: Facing (n.) A powdered substance, as charcoal, bituminous coal, ect., applied to the face of a mold, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting..

Heap :: Heap (v. t.) To throw or lay in a heap; to make a heap of; to pile; as, to heap stones; -- often with up; as, to heap up earth; or with on; as, to heap on wood or coal..

Spurner :: Spurn (n.) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.

Corf :: Corf (n.) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines..

Sloam :: Sloam (n.) A layer of earth between coal seams.

Convention :: Convention (v. i.) The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

Scuttle :: Scuttle (n.) A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.

Cobble :: Cobble (n.) Cob coal. See under Cob.

Basset :: Basset (v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets..