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seacoal

noun

Etymology

From sea + coal.

  1. inherited from *kulą✻
  2. inherited from *kol✻
  3. inherited from col
  4. inherited from cole
  5. compounded as seacoal — “sea + coal”

Definitions

  1. Coal from the sea

    Coal from the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches.

    • John Thompson of Setauket has a permit to go to Flushing and other parts of Long Island to search for sea-coal, of which he hath probable information.

  2. Coal from across the sea

    Coal from across the sea: mineral coal, as opposed to charcoal, in a time and place in which the former arrived by ship and the latter arrived overland (such as London in Elizabethan times).

    • […] and then of Sea-Coal and other necessary Fewel, fit for the working or melting of these Metalls; […]

  3. Coal to be used at sea

    Coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA