Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dust or grime of coal. Also
coal-sleck . - noun See
slack .
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Examples
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A mountain of coal-slack lies between the lines a little further along, which are in "dead" ground that cannot be covered by rifle fire, and are 1,200 yards apart.
The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926
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Couldn't you contrive that the pits belonged to you, instead of you belonging to the pits, like so many old pit-ponies that stop down till they are blind, and take to eating coal-slack for meadow-grass, not knowing the difference?
Touch and Go 1907
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In the nest, which was barely a hole scratched out of the coal-slack in the manner of a plover's nest, I observed three eggs, but did not touch them.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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