Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In railroading, the storing of coal for the use of locomotives.
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The country's economic planning agency has asked state-owned China Shenhua Energy to build 10 coal-storage sites across China.
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“They were working through the night to shore up that stove-in part of the hull in the starboard for'ard coal-storage bin.”
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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