Colliery: alternatives and connections

A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequ…

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.

A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devo…

Alt. of Breeze fly

Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making…

A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.

Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.

Defect; want; lack; default.

One who fits or makes to fit;

The act or process of converting into gas.

An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.

A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.

To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.