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Coalpit   Listen
noun
Coalpit  n.  
1.
A pit where coal is dug.
2.
A place where charcoal is made. (U. S.)





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"Coalpit" Quotes from Famous Books



... known to him by sight; but what on earth the three could be doing together, and, above all, what they could expect from him, was a most inexplicable problem. The first was Sorley Wilson, the son of the owner of the Nonpareil Coalpit. He was a young blood of twenty, heir to a fortune, a keen sportsman, and down for the Easter Vacation from Magdalene College. He sat now upon the edge of the surgery table, looking in thoughtful silence at Montgomery and ...
— The Green Flag • Arthur Conan Doyle
... have given her a Coalpit to have kept her in clean Linnen: And that her Finger should have sparkled with one hundred of his ...
— An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) • Corbyn Morris
... Baltimore and William Penn, to terminate a long controversy between two great landed proprietors, and they were led by Charles Mason, of the Royal Observatory, at Greenwich, England, and by Jeremiah Dixon, the son of a collier discovered in a coalpit. For three years they continued westward, running their stakes over mountains and streams, like a gypsy camp in appearance, frightening the Indians with their sorcery. But, near this spot, they halted longest, ...
— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend


Words linked to "Coalpit" :   colliery, pit, coal mine, mine


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