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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The process of supplying or taking in coal for use: as, the coaling of a steamer or locomotive; a coaling-station or coaling-wharf.

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  • verb Present participle of coal.

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Examples

  • Albert could learn but very little of Opeki; nothing, indeed, but that it was situated about one hundred miles from the Island of Octavia, which island, in turn, was simply described as a coaling-station three hundred miles distant from the coast of California.

    The Reporter Who Made Himself King 1891

  • Albert could learn but very little of Opeki; nothing, indeed, but that it was situated about one hundred miles from the Island of Octavia, which island, in turn, was simply described as a coaling-station three hundred miles distant from the coast of California.

    The Reporter Who Made Himself King Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • Albert could learn but very little of Opeki; nothing, indeed, but that it was situated about one hundred miles from the Island of Octavia, which island, in turn, was simply described as a coaling-station three hundred miles distant from the coast of California.

    Cinderella And Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • Albert could learn but very little of Opeki; nothing, indeed, but that it was situated about one hundred miles from the Island of Octavia, which island, in turn, was simply described as a coaling-station three hundred miles distant from the coast of California.

    The Exiles and Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • The "coaling," as it is technically termed, is an assemblage of "pits," or piles of wood, conical in form, and about ten feet in height by twenty in diameter.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

  • It is only necessary to remark, that the orthodox method of "coaling," or setting the brandy on fire, was effected by dropping "a live coal" ( "_gleed_") or red-hot cinder into the brandy.

    Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850 Various

  • In some places women were employed at the hardest work, such as coaling ships by hand and digging and carrying earth from canals and ditches.

    The Critic in the Orient George Hamlin Fitch 1888

  • Its too bed that we stuck with those two pro life women, that coaling for guns and danger and revolution.

    Apology not accepted, lawmaker says of McDonnell 2010

  • "And now I can tell you the name of the coaling station and of the protectorate that came afterward," he said.

    THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN 2010

  • Additionally, Article III of the 1934 treaty provides that the Republic of Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "for coaling and naval stations."

    Marjorie Cohn: Close the Guantánamo Gulag Marjorie Cohn 2012

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