coal-staith

He certainly adopted it early, and thereby met the fate of men before their age; for his plan was opposed by the labouring people of the colliery, who got up a riot in which they tore up the road and burnt the coal-staith, whilst Mr. Curr fled into a neighbouring wood for concealment, and lay there _perdu_ for three days and nights, to escape the fury of the populace.

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858