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channel coal

noun

Definitions

  1. Misconstruction of cannel coal.

    • When this coal is put into the fire, it crackles, and separates into laminae, as the channel coal does into irregular pieces, burns for some time with a heavy flame, becomes red-hot, and gradually consumes to light white ashes.
    • Of channel coal there has been imported into the States from England 17,767 tons, against 27,641 tons in 1871.
    • Between 25,000 and 30,000 bushels of channel coal were mined from three pits in Phelps and Crawford counties and hauled to the Works […]

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for channel coal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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