Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Coal of either of two sizes: large stove, or No. 3, which passes through a 2¼- to 2-inch mesh, and over a 1⅞- to 1½-inch mesh, and
- noun small stove, known as No. 4, which passes through a 1⅞- to l-inch mesh, and over a l⅛- to 1-inch mesh.
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Examples
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I asked the proprietor if we could not get at a fire; but he insisted that the room was warm, that it was heated with a furnace, and that he burned good stove-coal, and pointed to a register high up in the wall.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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I asked the proprietor if we could not get at a fire; but he insisted that the room was warm, that it was heated with a furnace, and that he burned good stove-coal, and pointed to a register high up in the wall.
Saunterings Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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