1. Noun
A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
2. Noun
A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.
3. Verb
To burn to charcoal; to char.
4. Verb
To mark or delineate with charcoal.
5. Verb
To supply with coal; as, to coal a steamer.
6. Verb
To take in coal; as, the steamer coaled at Southampton.
7. Noun
a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
8. Noun
fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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