Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pit where coal is dug.
- noun In the United States, a place where charcoal is made.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pit where coal is dug.
- noun United States A place where charcoal is made.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
pit wherecoal is dug. - noun US A place where
charcoal is made.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mine where coal is dug from the ground
Etymologies
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Examples
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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The coalpit worker, the steel puddler. and those who do many maintenance jobs on an assembly line can surrender to self-controlled electronic machines the hazards and dullness of backbreaking menial work.
The Brain Builders 2008
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In November 1791 Federalist Fisher Ames wrote that “tranquility has soothed the surface” but “faction glows within like a coalpit”; before the end of January 1792 he was saying, “I do not believe that the hatred of the Jacobites toward the House of Hanover was ever more deadly than that which is borne by many of the partisans of State power towards the government of the United States.”
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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In November 1791 Federalist Fisher Ames wrote that “tranquility has soothed the surface” but “faction glows within like a coalpit”; before the end of January 1792 he was saying, “I do not believe that the hatred of the Jacobites toward the House of Hanover was ever more deadly than that which is borne by many of the partisans of State power towards the government of the United States.”
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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In November 1791 Federalist Fisher Ames wrote that “tranquility has soothed the surface” but “faction glows within like a coalpit”; before the end of January 1792 he was saying, “I do not believe that the hatred of the Jacobites toward the House of Hanover was ever more deadly than that which is borne by many of the partisans of State power towards the government of the United States.”
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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