Colliery

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  • noun. A coal mine together with its physical plant and outbuildings.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A place where coal is dug; a coal-mine or -pit, with the requisite apparatus for working it.
  • noun. The coal-trade.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.
  • noun. The coal trade.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
  • noun. A facility that supplies coal.
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  • noun. a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
  • Word Usage
    "Clive Brill, the director, has had a good idea for the soundscape which doesn't quite work: the Volsci are Yorkshiremen, and the incidental music is therefore all in colliery brass band style."
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