Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coal-bed or coal-seam.
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The lavish and prodigal use of the coal-deposit of the earth, and the deforesting of vast tracts of soil to supply fuel for the locomotive and the stationary engine, have already wrought incalculable and almost irremediable evils.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various
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