(historical, technical, chiefly, U.S.) Coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.
(historical, technical, chiefly, U.S.) Coal to be used at sea: a certain class of mineral coal, especially suitable for the steam engines of ships at sea and locomotives.
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(historical, Britain) Coal from a pit: mineral coal mined from a mine, as opposed to charcoal or seacoal.
(uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
(countable) A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English).
(historical, chiefly, Southern England) Coal from across the sea: mineral coal, as opposed to charcoal, in a time and place in which the former arrived by ship and the latter arrived overland (such as London in Elizabethan times).
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from the sea: mineral coal that washes up from the sea onto beaches.
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