Bed rock () The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. |
Bovey coal () A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor |
Broken (p. p.) of Break |
Broken (v. t.) Separated into parts or pieces by violence |
Broken (v. t.) Disconnected |
Broken (v. t.) Fractured |
Broken (v. t.) Made infirm or weak, by disease, age, or hardships. |
Broken (v. t.) Subdued |
Broken (v. t.) Subjugated |
Broken (v. t.) Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope |
Broken (v. t.) Not carried into effect |
Broken (v. t.) Ruined financially |
Broken (v. t.) Imperfectly spoken, as by a foreigner |
Broken-backed (a.) Having a broken back |
Broken-backed (a.) Hogged |
Broken-bellied (a.) Having a ruptured belly. |
Broken-hearted (a.) Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. |
Broken wind () The heaves. |
Broken-winded (a.) Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse. |
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. |
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. |
Debris (n.) Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively |
Debris (n.) Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything |
Heap (n.) A crowd |
Heap (n.) A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile. |
Heap (n.) A pile or mass |
Heap (v. t.) To collect in great quantity |
Heap (v. t.) To throw or lay in a heap |
Heap (v. t.) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring |
Kennel coal () See Cannel coal. |
Material (a.) Consisting of matter |
Material (a.) Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature |
Material (a.) Of solid or weighty character |
Material (a.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter. |
Material (n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made. |
Material (v. t.) To form from matter |
material breach | a breach serious enough to destroy the value of the contract and to give a basis for an action for breach of contract |
rock climbing | the sport or pastime of scaling rock masses on mountain sides (especially with the help of ropes and special equipment) |
rock careen sway tilt | pitching dangerously to one side |
waste of material | a useless consumption of material |
cock of the rock Rupicola rupicola | tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest |
cock of the rock Rupicola peruviana | bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola |
rock wren Salpinctes obsoletus | wren inhabiting badlands and mesa country of western United States and Mexico |
rock wren Xenicus gilviventris | short-tailed bird resembling a wren |
rock python rock snake Python sebae | very large python of tropical and southern Africa |
rock rattlesnake Crotalus lepidus | mountain rock dweller of Mexico and most southern parts of United States southwest |
Plymouth Rock | an American breed of domestic fowl |
Rock Cornish | small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl |
Greek partridge rock partridge Alectoris graeca | of mountainous areas of southern Europe |
rock dove rock pigeon Columba livia | pale grey Eurasian pigeon having black-striped wings from which most domestic species are descended |
rock wallaby rock kangaroo | slender long-legged Australian wallabies living in caves and rocky areas |
rock crab Cancer irroratus | crab of eastern coast of North America |
spiny lobster langouste rock lobster crawfish crayfish sea crawfish | large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters |
acorn barnacle rock barnacle Balanus balanoides | barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones |
rock hopper crested penguin | small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand |
pika mouse hare rock rabbit coney cony | small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America |
rock squirrel Citellus variegatus | large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States |
rock hyrax rock rabbit Procavia capensis | hyrax that lives in rocky areas |
rock bass rock sunfish Ambloplites rupestris | game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes |
rock sea bass rock bass Centropristis philadelphica | a kind of sea bass |
rock hind Epinephelus adscensionis | found around rocky coasts or on reefs |
rock beauty Holocanthus tricolor | gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil |
rock gunnel butterfish Pholis gunnellus | slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters |
atomic pile atomic reactor pile chain reactor | a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy |
bedding material bedding litter | material used to provide a bed for animals |
bore bit borer rock drill stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
broken arch | an arch with a gap at the apex, the gap is usually filled with some decoration |
bus jalopy heap | a car that is old and unreliable, the fenders had fallen off that old bus |
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 |
fabric cloth material textile | artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers, the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent, woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around BC, she measured off enough material for a dress |
fire tongs coal tongs | tongs for taking hold of burning coals |
lake dwelling pile dwelling | dwelling built on piles in or near a lake, specifically in prehistoric villages |
material | things needed for doing or making something, writing materials, useful teaching materials |
photographic paper photographic material | light-sensitive paper on which photograph can be printed |
piece of cloth piece of material | a separate part consisting of fabric |
pile nap | the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave, for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction |
pile spile piling stilt | a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure |
pile driver | a machine that drives piling into the ground |
rock bit roller bit | a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers |
rock garden rockery | a garden featuring rocks, usually alpine plants |
scuttle coal scuttle | container for coal, shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire |
sheet pile sheath pile sheet piling | a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage |