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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A coal mine together with its physical plant and outbuildings.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A place where coal is dug; a coal-mine or -pit, with the requisite apparatus for working it.
  2. n. The coal-trade.

Wiktionary

  1. n. UK An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
  2. n. US A facility that supplies coal.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.
  2. n. obsolete The coal trade.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it

Etymologies

  1. From collier +‎ -y. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Clive Brill, the director, has had a good idea for the soundscape which doesn't quite work: the Volsci are Yorkshiremen, and the incidental music is therefore all in colliery brass band style.”

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  • “Brass bands known as colliery bands were the local entertainment for the coal miners of Durham in Northern England, where the collieries mining operations are now defunct.”

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  • “Eventually the officers of the colliery, which is owned by the AngloAmerican Corp. of South Africa, decided to clear the shaft by pumping air in to push the fumes deeper into the mine; the decision permitted the rescue effort to begin but inevitably reduced the chance of finding anyone alive.”

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  • “Hope fades, anger grows at New Zealand mine Updated 30 minutes ago 11/22/2010 9:58:28 AM +00:00 Efforts to rescue 29 men trapped in a New Zealand coal mine stalled for a third day on Monday, with authorities fearing the colliery is a powder keg of explosive gases.”

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  • “GREYMOUTH, New Zealand - Efforts to rescue 29 men trapped in a New Zealand coal mine stalled for a third day on Monday, with authorities fearing the colliery is a powder keg of explosive gases and relatives praying for a miracle.”

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  • “GREYMOUTH, New Zealand Reuters - Efforts to rescue 29 men trapped in a New Zealand coal mine stalled for a third day on Monday, with authorities fearing the colliery is a powder keg of explosive gases and relatives praying for a miracle.”

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  • “Hope fades, anger grows at New Zealand mine Updated 107 minutes ago 11/22/2010 9:58:28 AM +00:00 Efforts to rescue 29 men trapped in a New Zealand coal mine stalled for a third day on Monday, with authorities fearing the colliery is a powder keg of explosive gases.”

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  • “Maybe Peter Lazenby would like to write about many of the symbols such as colliery wheels and factory gates that got melted down when our means of employment and cultural heritage was destroyed, particulary those that represent genuine hardship suffering and sacrifice of our own people.”

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  • “Riversdale operates a colliery in South Africa and is developing two major coal projects in neighboring Mozambique in an area that is attracting interest from mining and steel companies from around the world.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Rio Tinto Looks To Replenish Board

  • “Riversdale operates a colliery in South Africa and is developing two projects in neighboring Mozambique.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Rio Tinto Fails in Sweetened Riversdale Bid

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  • jaime_d From "Haile Selassie Funeral Train" by Guy Davenport. Jan 19, 2010

  • reallifepixel In the United States, United Kingdom, and South Africa, a coal mine and its accompanying structures are collectively known as a colliery.

    Colliery tailings : slag Aug 8, 2009

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