Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bin or receptacle for coal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a bin for holding coal.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a bin for holding coal

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Examples

  • To be sure, the hall was so narrow it was fortunate that they had no piano, for one never could have been got in whole, the dining room was so small that six people were a tight fit, and the kitchen stairs seemed built for the express pur - pose of precipitating both servants and china pell-mell into the coalbin.

    Little Women 1921

  • Charcoal portraits came next, and the entire family hung in a row, looking as wild and crocky as if just evoked from a coalbin.

    Little Women 1921

  • Now the following story will be about Buddy on horseback -- that is, providing no cats get into our coalbin to scratch the furnace and make it go out.

    Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg Bed Time Stories Howard Roger Garis 1917

  • Charcoal portraits came next, and the entire family hung in a row, looking as wild and crocky as if just evoked from a coalbin.

    Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • To be sure, the hall was so narrow it was fortunate that they had no piano, for one never could have been got in whole, the dining room was so small that six people were a tight fit, and the kitchen stairs seemed built for the express purpose of precipitating both servants and china pell-mell into the coalbin.

    Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • You got it crawling in the window into the Bullfinch coalbin, didn't you? "

    Jerry's Charge Account Hazel Hutchins Wilson 1945

  • Makes me feel almost like I ought to put on a gag and sit down cellar in the coalbin. "

    Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

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