Bovey coal () A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor |
Caking coal () See Coal. |
Canal coal () See Cannel coal. |
Candle coal () See Cannel coal. |
Cannel coal () A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles. |
Captive (n.) A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war |
Captive (n.) One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection |
Captive (a.) Made prisoner, especially in war |
Captive (a.) Subdued by love |
Captive (a.) Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement |
Captive (v. t.) To take prisoner |
Coal (n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance |
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. |
Coal (v. t.) To burn to charcoal |
Coal (v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal. |
Coal (v. t.) To supply with coal |
Coal (v. i.) To take in coal |
Coal-black (a.) As black as coal |
Coal-meter (n.) A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. |
Coal tar () A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas |
Coal-whipper (n.) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. |
Coal works () A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. |
Day-coal (n.) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface. |
Kennel coal () See Cannel coal. |
Mine (n.) See Mien. |
Mine (pron. & a.) Belonging to me |
Mine (v. i.) To dig a mine or pit in the earth |
Mine (v. i.) To form subterraneous tunnel or hole |
Mine (v. t.) To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of |
Mine (v. t.) To dig into, for ore or metal. |
Mine (v. t.) To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging. |
Mine (v. i.) A subterranean cavity or passage |
Mine (v. i.) A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging |
Mine (v. i.) A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent. |
Mine (v. i.) Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil |
Mine (v. i.) Fig.: A rich source of wealth or other good. |
Sea coal () Coal brought by sea |
mine disposal | the disposal of explosive mines |
treadmill salt mine | a job involving drudgery and confinement |
claymore mine claymore | an antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy |
coal car | freight car with fixed sides and no roof, for transporting coal |
coal chute | a chute for coal |
coal house | a shed for storing coal |
coal mine coalpit | a mine where coal is dug from the ground |
coal shovel | a hand shovel for shoveling coal |
copper mine | a mine where copper is dug from the ground |
fire tongs coal tongs | tongs for taking hold of burning coals |
floating mine marine mine | an explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it |
goldmine gold mine | a mine where gold ore is found |
goldmine gold mine | a good source of something that is desired |
land mine ground-emplaced mine booby trap | an explosive mine hidden underground, explodes when stepped on or driven over |
magnetic mine | (nautical) a marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that responds to magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship) |
mine | explosive device that explodes on contact, designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel |
mine | excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted |
mine detector | detector consisting of an electromagnetic device, used to locate explosive mines |
salt mine | a mine where salt is dug |
scuttle coal scuttle | container for coal, shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire |
silver mine | a mine where silver ore is dug |
strip mine | an open mine (usually for coal) where the seams run close to the surface |
sulphur mine sulfur mine | a mine where sulphur is dug from the ground |
coal black ebony jet black pitch black sable soot black | a very dark black |
coal industry | the producers of coal considered collectively |
United Mine Workers of America United Mine Workers | an industrial union of mine workers in North America |
captive finance company | a finance company owned by a manufacturer to finance dealers' inventories or to make loans to consumers buying the company's products |
coal seam | a seam of coal |
mine field | a tract of land containing explosive mines |
ember coal | a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering |
captive | an animal that is confined |
captive | a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion |
coal miner collier pitman | someone who works in a coal mine |
prisoner captive | a person who is confined, especially a prisoner of war |
anthracosis black lung black lung disease coal miner's lung | lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust |
charcoal wood coal | a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air |
coal gas | gaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting |
kerosene kerosine lamp oil coal oil | a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters |
cannel coal | a bituminous coal that burns with a luminous flame |
coal | fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period |
anthracite anthracite coal hard coal | a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat |
bituminous coal soft coal | rich in tarry hydrocarbons, burns readily with a smoky yellow flame |
lignite brown coal wood coal | intermediate between peat and bituminous coal |
sea coal | pulverized bituminous coal, used as a foundry facing |
steam coal | coal suitable for use under steam boilers |
creosote coal-tar creosote | a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar, used as a preservative for wood |
coal tar | a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal, coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds |
mine pig | pig iron made entirely from ore |
mine | lay mines, The Vietnamese mined Cambodia |
mine | get from the earth by excavation, mine ores and metals |