Air shaft () A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel. |
Bovey coal () A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor |
Butt shaft () An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts |
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. |
Kennel coal () See Cannel coal. |
Rock shaft () A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines |
Sea coal () Coal brought by sea |
Shaft (n.) The slender, smooth stem of an arrow |
Shaft (n.) The long handle of a spear or similar weapon |
Shaft (n.) That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear |
Shaft (n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant. |
Shaft (n.) The stem or midrib of a feather. |
Shaft (n.) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle |
Shaft (n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches. |
Shaft (n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc. |
Shaft (n.) A pole, especially a Maypole. |
Shaft (n.) The body of a column |
Shaft (n.) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument. |
Shaft (n.) A rod at the end of a heddle. |
Shaft (n.) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion |
Shaft (n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male |
Shaft (n.) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc. |
Shaft (n.) A long passage for the admission or outlet of air |
Shaft (n.) The chamber of a blast furnace. |
Way shaft () A rock shaft. |
Way shaft () An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. |
chicken louse shaft louse Menopon palladum Menopon gallinae | a louse parasitic on poultry |
quill calamus shaft | the hollow spine of a feather |
air shaft air well | a shaft for ventilation |
butt shaft | a blunt arrow without a barb, an arrow used for target practice |
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 |
elevator shaft | a vertical shaft in a building to permit the passage of an elevator from floor to floor |
fire tongs coal tongs | tongs for taking hold of burning coals |
rotating shaft shaft | a revolving rod that transmits power or motion |
rotor head rotor shaft | the axis around which the major rotor of a helicopter turns |
scuttle coal scuttle | container for coal, shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire |
shaft | a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) |
shaft | a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel |
shaft scape | (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column |
shaft | a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) |
spear lance shaft | a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon |
transmission shaft | rotating shaft that transmits rotary motion from the engine to the differential |
ventilation shaft | a shaft in a building, serves as an air passage for ventilation |
coal black ebony jet black pitch black sable soot black | a very dark black |
cock prick dick shaft pecker peter tool putz | obscene terms for penis |
diaphysis shaft | the main (mid) section of a long bone |
shot shaft slam dig barb jibe gibe | an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect, his parting shot was `drop dead', she threw shafts of sarcasm, she takes a dig at me every chance she gets |
shaft | a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer |
coal industry | the producers of coal considered collectively |
coal seam | a seam of coal |
ember coal | a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering |
coal miner collier pitman | someone who works in a coal mine |
beam beam of light light beam ray ray of light shaft shaft of light irradiation | a column of light (as from a beacon) |
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 |
cheat chouse shaft screw chicane jockey | defeat someone through trickery or deceit |
coal | take in coal, The big ship coaled |
coal | supply with coal |
shaft | equip with a shaft |
char coal | burn to charcoal, Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything |
coal-black jet jet-black pitchy sooty | of the blackest black, similar to the color of jet or coal |