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- noun A place where
coal isdug , including themachinery forraising the coal.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In March 1865 I determined to go to the coalworks which were being opened near the Simunjon River, a small branch of the Sadong,
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In March 1865 I determined to go to the coalworks which were being opened near the Simunjon River, a small branch of the Sadong, a river east of Sarawak and between it and the Batang-Lupar.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Now, during my whole twelve years’ collecting in the western and eastern tropics, I never enjoyed such advantages in this respect as at the Simunjon coalworks.
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"At the coalworks in the neighbourhood of Newcastle-upon-Tyne," says Wood, "the expenses of conveying the coals from
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